Antin Ivanovych Manastyrsky ( uk, Антін Іванович Манастирський; November 2, 1878 – May 15, 1969) was a Ukrainian

folk artist Folk art covers all forms of visual art made in the context of folk culture. Definitions vary, but generally the objects have practical utility of some kind, rather than being exclusively decorative. The makers of folk art are typically tra ...

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

, and

graphic artist A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, p ...

. He is the father of artist Vitold Manastyrsky. Manastyrsky was born in the village of

Zavaliv Zavaliv ( uk, Завалів) (formerly pl, Zawałów) is a village (formerly a town) in the western part of Ternopil Raion (district) of Ternopil Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. The village is situated on the right bank of Zolota Lypa (s ...

, now Ternopil Raion of

Ternopil Oblast Ternopil Oblast ( uk, Тернопі́льська о́бласть, translit=Ternopilska oblast; also referred to as Ternopilshchyna, uk, Терно́пільщина, label=none, or Ternopillia, uk, Тернопілля, label=none) is an obl ...

, in the family of a postal official. He graduated from the Lviv Art-Industrial School and later the

Krakow Academy of Fine Arts The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków ( pl, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie, usually abbreviated to ''ASP''), is a public institution of higher education located in the centre of Kraków, Poland. It is the oldest Pol ...

. In 1900, the Society for the Advancement of the Ruthenian Work, which Manastyrsky was a member of, staged an exhibition of his first paintings. Since that time, he began his artistic career. He paints a whole gallery of high-spiritual works - landscapes, contemporary reality, and satires. Manastyrsky lived and worked in

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 ...

. Manastyrsky died May 15, 1969, and was buried in a family tomb at the Lychakiv cemetery.

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Manastyrsky Antin
/ Entry in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine * 1878 births 1969 deaths People from Ternopil Oblast Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Ukrainian artists Soviet painters Ukrainian academics Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts alumni Burials at Lychakiv Cemetery {{Ukraine-academic-bio-stub