Selected dates:
October 31, 1937
He was born in Minsk (BSSR, today the Republic of Belarus).
1957
After the war, he graduated from the Minsk Art School.
1963
He graduated from the Belarusian Theater and Art Institute.
From 1963
Took part in art exhibitions.
Since 1965
Member of the Belarusian Union of Artists. Chairman of the BSM commission on folk art.
In 1991
Together with Vladimir Krukovskiy, he became one of the authors of the standard coat of arms "The Pursuit", which was used as the state coat of arms of Belarus until 1995.
January 12, 2002
He died in Minsk. The last years of Yevhen Kulik's life were extremely difficult. Over the years, he began to develop a rare joint disease. The artist allegedly twisted, the bones became fragile. Once, having slipped in the winter, Kulik suffered twelve fractures. Buried at Calvary cemetery in Minsk.
November 2005
A monument to Kulik was opened at the cemetery.
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His graphic paintings "Monuments of the Doylidztva of Hrodna region", "Castles of Belarus", "Temples of Belarus", "Paths of Joseph Drazdovich", "Uprising of 1863 in Belarus" are very famous. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was engaged in book graphics, he designed dozens of books, and the best of them were: "A word about Igor's stick", "From the bustle of bars" by Aleksandrovich, "The green fly and the snub-faced mosquito" by M. Bogdanovich, " Sun glomerulus" V. Zuyonka. The book "The Song of the Bison" by M. Husouski became a real masterpiece of the artist.
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Vladimir Basaliga:
"Yugen Kulik [was, as it were] a messenger who in ancient times was sent from the princely army to bring good news to the Motherland. Kulik brought the news of the Renaissance to Belarusians."
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Edward Ludovich:
"This short, hunched-over man with a short surname was one of the great handful of people who remembered the renaissance, won back independence. From the great handful of founding nationalists."
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Siarhei Kharevsky:
"When talking about Kulik, it is difficult to avoid pathos....This figure is like a mountain, it will grow from year to year, the further we move away from it. The man gathered around himself a brilliant galaxy of Belarusian intelligentsia - artists, writers, historians, created the state coat of arms of an independent of Belarus. Kulik was the ideological center of the intelligentsia community.... Here he did work similar to that performed in Poland by Jerzy Gedroyc, the editor of the Parisian "Kultura".... Kulik will forever remain a symbol of incorruptibility and indomitability, indomitable spirit."