Hanna Veres

According to early reports, on 27 February 2022, works by Veres were among those destroyed when the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum was burned down during the Battle of Ivankiv, a military engagement during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Other works destroyed alongside included paintings by Maria Prymachenko.

Veres lived in Kyiv, in a house on Bastionny Lane. She died in Obukhovichi on 11 June 2003.

A specialist in the field of decorative textile arts, especially artistic embroidery, Veres created traditional Polesian woven towels, as well as decorative fabrics and panels. Towels are a traditional Ukrainian textile: they are used as a special surface for food to be served on, and many are given as gifts at significant life moments. She founded the Museum of Folk Weaving in Ivankiv, which opened in 1988 and closed in 1992. Her works toured to North America, where they were shown in Toronto and Montreal.

From 1966 to 1968 she made a series of ornamental textiles, dedicated to Taras Shevchenko. The 1971 edition of Shevchenko's Kobzar is illustrated with reproductions of her towels co-produced with Hanna Vasylashchuk [uk]. The films Lyada (1974, "Kyivnaukfilm"), A Flax Blooms (1980, "Ukrtelefilm") are dedicated to Veres' work.

Hanna Ivanovna Veres (Ukrainian: Га́нна Іва́нівна Ве́рес; 21 December 1928 – 11 June 2003) was a Ukrainian folk artist, embroiderer and weaver. She was the daughter of the artist and weaver, Maria Posobchuk, and the mother of artists Valentina and Elena Veres. She was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize with Anna Vasylashchuk in 1968.

Hanna Ivanovna Veres was born on 21 December 1928 in the village of Obukhovychi in the Vyshhorod district of Kyiv region. Her mother was the artist, Maria Posobchuk. Veres had two daughters, Valentina and Elena Veres [Wikidata], both of whom also became artists. According to historian, N M Nevega, Posobchuk taught her daughter many of her skills, which she in turned passed on to her daughters.