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National Museum Of Lviv
The Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum of Lviv ( uk, Національний музей у Львові імені Андрея Шептицького) is one of Ukraine's largest museums, dedicated to Ukrainian culture in all its manifestations. It was established by Metropolitan Archbishop Andrey Sheptytsky in 1905 and was originally known as the Lwow Ecclesiastical Museum. It currently bears Sheptytsky's name. History The founder donated some 10,000 items to the museum and raised the funds required for its maintenance. An extravagant Neo-Baroque villa was acquired to house the collections. After the World War II, the museum was renamed the Lviv Museum of Ukrainian Art. The collection was augmented by adding a number of exhibits confiscated from other Lviv museums. By the late 20th century, the museum's holdings of Ukrainian icons and folk art were the largest in the country. The National Museum now occupies the ornate building of the former Lviv Industrial Museum, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lviv
Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine. It was named in honour of Leo, the eldest son of Daniel, King of Ruthenia. Lviv emerged as the centre of the historical regions of Red Ruthenia and Galicia in the 14th century, superseding Halych, Chełm, Belz and Przemyśl. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia from 1272 to 1349, when it was conquered by King Casimir III the Great of Poland. From 1434, it was the regional capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland. In 1772, after the First Partition of Poland, the city became the capital of the Habsburg Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. In 1918, for a short time, it was the capital of the West Ukrainian People's Republic. Between the wars, the city was the centre of the Lwów Voivodeship in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Georg Pinsel
Johann Georg Pinsel ( pl, Johann Georg / Jan Jerzy Pinsel, uk, Йоган Ґеорґ Пінзель; 1715–1725 – 1761 or early 1762) was a Baroque-Rococo sculptor active in Eastern Galicia (then in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, now Ukraine). Biographical details about him are scarce. He was discovered by Jan Bołoz Antoniewicz and appeared in scholarly literature in 1923 in the monograph of p. Władysław Żyła "Kościół i klasztor Dominikanów we Lwowie" ("Dominican church and monastery in Lviv"). His first and second name, some information about his family and approximate date of death were only established in 1993, with the discovery of registers of the Buchach Roman Catholic parish. The place and exact date of his birth remain unknown. Pinsel came to the Kingdom of Poland most probably around 1750. According to Jan K. Ostrowski, it is almost certain that he was of German ethnic origin. He settled in Buchach and became court artist to Mikołaj Bazyli Potocki. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleksa Novakivskyi
Oleksa Kharlampiyovych Novakivskyi (Ukrainian: Оле́кса Харла́мпійович Новакі́вський; 14 March 1872, Obodyvka, Trostianets Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast — 29 August 1935, Lviv) was a Ukrainian painter and art teacher; known largely as an Impressionist. Biography He was born to a forester who worked at the estate of an aristocratic Polish family. A local nobleman took note of his talent and provided the means for him to pursue an artistic education. From 1888 to 1892, he studied in Odessa with the watercolorist and decorative painter, Filip Klimenko (1862-c.1917). Further support enabled him to transfer to the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, where he worked with Jan Matejko (until his death) then Leon Wyczółkowski, among others.H.F. Kovpanenko"Новаківський Олекса Харлампійович"@ the Institute of Ukrainian History. He graduated in 1900. For about ten years, he lived in the village of Mogila, now on the Polish-Ukrainian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Ilyich Bilan
Pyotr Ilyich Bilan (russian: Петр Ильич Билан; 21 July 1921 – 22 September 1996) was an honored Soviet Russian - Ukrainian painter working in the genre of easel painting. His works particularly include portraits, landscapes and thematic paintings. Biography Pyotr Ilyich Bilan was born on 7 July 1921, in the village of Novonikolaevka in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukrainian SSR, USSR. He was a soldier in World War II and was recruited in 1940. He became a prisoner of war when captured in the Belarusian SSR close to the Polish border in July 1941 by Nazi Germany. He was deported to different unknown locations and escaped a prisoner camp in Badisch-Rheinfelden after having been condemned to death on Easter in 1942. He escaped the camp by breaking the barbed wire and swimming across the partly frozen River Rhine to Switzerland by night. In Switzerland, he was sheltered by a farmer family and spent a few days in prison in Rheinfelden. He was the first Russian priso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Józefat Ignacy Łukasiewicz
Józefat Ignacy Łukaszewicz (; 6 November 1789 – 3 January 1850) was a Polish-Lithuanian identity, Polish-Lithuanian painter. Early life He was born in Žiežmariai on 6 November 1789 as son of Teodor Jozef Łukaszewicz (1747–1805), noble and owner of the village council and administrator of several towns in the property of Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski in Czeszewo, Września County, Czeszewo, and Katarzyna Zofia Marianna Łukaszewicz born Baranowska (1765–1843). He was brother of (1799–1873), historian, publicist, librarian and publisher. When he was young, Józefat initially was a student of the Dominican Order in Vilnius. Napoleonic Wars In 1812, Łukaszewicz enrolled in the Vilnius University and began studying in its art school, where he studied painting as a pupil of Jan Rustem. When the French invasion of Russia, French invasion of the Russian Empire began in summer 1812 and the Grande Armée, ''Grand Armée'' liberated Vilnius, Łukaszewicz joined Napol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michał Filewicz
Michał () is a Polish and Sorbian languages, Sorbian form of Michael (name), Michael and may refer to: * Michał Bajor (born 1957), Polish actor and musician * Michał Chylinski (born 1986), Polish basketball player * Michał Drzymała (1857–1937), Polish rebel * Michał Heller (born 1936), Polish academic and catholic priest * Michał Kalecki (1899–1970), Polish economist * Michał Kamiński (born 1972), Polish politician * Michał Kubiak (born 1988), Polish volleyball player * Michał Kwiatkowski (born 1990), Polish cyclist * Michał Listkiewicz (born 1953), Polish football referee * Michał Lorenc (born 1955), Polish film score compose * Michał Łysejko (born 1990), Polish heavy metal drummer * Michał Piróg (born 1979), Polish dancer, choreographer, TV presenter, actor and television personality * Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł (1778–1850), Polish noble * Michał Rozmys (born 1995), Polish middle-distance runner * Michał Sołowow (born 1962), Polish billionaire businessman a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasyl Krychevsky
Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky ( uk, Василь Григорович Кричевський; January 12, 1873 in Vorozhba village, now Lebedyn Raion – November 15, 1952, in Caracas, Venezuela) was a Ukrainian painter, architect, art scholar, graphic artist, film art consultant, pedagogue and master of applied art and decorative art. He is the designer of the 1918 Ukrainian coat of arms, state seals, banknotes. He was the brother of Ukrainian painter Fedir Krychevsky. Biography Vasyl Krychevsky was born in the village of Vorozhba, near Lebedyn, to a family of eight children where he was the eldest. His father Hryhoriy Yakymovych Krychevsky was a county state doctor of Jewish descent who converted to Orthodox Christianity and married a Ukrainian woman, Praskovia Hryhorivna. Krychevsky had little formal education, but a deep interest in Ukrainian folklore and art history. During the First World War, he was one of the founders and rectors of the Ukrainian State Academy of Arts. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liuboslav Hutsaliuk
Liuboslav Hutsaliuk (first name also variously spelled Lubomyr, Luboslau, Ljuboslav, or shortened to Lubo and surname also spelled Hucaljuk) (2 April 1923 in Lviv – 16 December 2003 in New York City) was a Ukrainian-American painter, graphic artist, cartoonist and caricaturist. Along with Edward Kozak, Mykola Butovich and Michael Moroz, Hutsaliuk was cited in 1972 as amongst the best known of Ukrainian painters living in the United States, and mentioned as "becoming increasingly popular". In 1982, he was again mentioned as one of Ukraine's "first rate artists" living in the United States. He was best known for his "neo-impressionist oil paintings of cityscapes, landscapes and still lifes." Biography Hutsaliuk was born in Lviv, Poland, on April 2, 1923. He joined the Galicia (Halychyna) Division and fought in World War II; wounded in action, he was moved to various displaced persons camps after the war had finished. In 1946, Hutsaliuk moved to Munich, where he began his art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Gritchenko
, image = YoungAlexisGritchenko.jpg, image_size = , alt = black and white portrait photo , caption = Alexis Gritchenko , birth_name = Oleksa Hryshchenko , birth_date = , birth_place = Krolevets, Chernihiv province, Russian Empire , death_date = , death_place = Vence, France , nationality = Ukrainian , spouse = Mile Lilas Lavelaine de Maubeuge , field = Expressionist Painter , training = Moscow Art School , movement = , works = , patrons = , influenced by = , influenced = , awards = , elected = Alexis Gritchenko (Ukrainian: Оле́кса Гри́щенко; born April 2, 1883 – January 28, 1977) was a Ukrainian painter and art theorist. Biography Education and early career Gritchenko studied philology and biology at the universities of Kyiv, St Petersburg and Moscow before turning to art. He studied painting in Moscow and established close ties with the collectors Sergey Shchukin and Ivan Morozov. In 1911, he visited Paris where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Hnizdovsky
Jacques Hnizdovsky ( uk, Яків Гніздовський, pl, Jakub Gniazdowski, hr, Jakiv Hnizdovskij), (1915–1985) was a Ukrainian-American painter, printmaker, graphic designer, illustrator and sculptor. Biography Jacques Hnizdovsky was born on January 27, 1915 in Ukraine in what is now Chortkiv Raion of Ternopil Oblast to a noble family bearing the Korab coat of arms. He was the youngest of seven children and the only member of his family that was able to emigrate to the west. He began his fine arts studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Germany's invasion of Poland and bombardment of Warsaw forced Jacques to flee Warsaw and continue his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He was classically trained and had a great interest in portraiture, but Hnizdovsky was entirely self-taught in the art of printmaking. Hnizdovsky created hundreds of paintings, pen and ink drawings and watercolors, as well as over 377 woodcuts, etchings and linocuts after h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mykhailo Boychuk
Mykhailo Boychuk ( uk, Миха́йло Льво́вич Бойчу́к, 30 October 1882 – 13 July 1937) was a Ukrainian painter, most commonly known as a monumentalist. He is considered a representative of the generation of the Executed Renaissance. Biography Boychuk was born in Romanivka, then in Austria-Hungary, and currently in Ternopil Oblast of Ukraine. He studied painting under Yulian Pankevych in Lemberg, and subsequently in Kraków, where he graduated from the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts in 1905. He also studied at fine arts academies in Vienna and Munich. In 1905, he had his work exhibited at the Latour Gallery in Lemberg and in 1907, his work was exhibited in Munich. Between 1907 and 1910 he lived in Paris where, in 1909, he founded his own studio-school. In this period, he worked with and was influenced by Félix Vallotton, Paul Sérusier and Maurice Denis. He held an exhibition at the Salon des Indépendants in 1910, featuring his and his students' works on the rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olena Kulchytska
Olena Lvivna Kulchytska ( uk, Олена Львівна Кульчицька; 15 September 1877 – 8 March 1967) was a Ukrainian artist, painter, and civil activist. Biography Family She was born in the town of Berezhany, Galicia in the modern-day Ternopil Oblast of Ukraine. Her father was Lev Teodorovich Kulchytsky (1843 – December 4, 1909), a court counselor, lawyer, public figure, and member of many societies. Her mother was Maria Yakivna Kulchytska (? – December 29, 1939). Learning and the first steps in art In 1894 she graduated from an 8th grade school at the monastery in Lviv. For several months between 1901 and 1902, she and her sister Olga attended the where she received her first lessons in watercolor. Olena Kulchytska completed her art training at the private studio run by R. Bratkowski and S. Batowski-Kaczor in Lviv (1901–3) and the Vienna School of Industrial Design (1903–1908). After graduating, she took a year to travel through the major European a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
