Bohdana Yosypivna Durda ( uk, Богдана Йосипівна Ду́рда; born May 24, 1940) is a Ukrainian artist, writer, poet, and songwriter, as well as a former
design engineer
A design engineer is an engineer focused on the engineering design process in any of the various engineering disciplines (including civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical, textiles, aerospace, nuclear, manufacturing, systems, and structural /buil ...
. Her artwork includes portraits, landscapes, and
still life
A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, m ...
s. She has illustrated children's books, and has written lyrics for more than 100 songs.
Biography
Bohdana Yosypivna Durda was born in
Buchach
Buchach ( uk, Бучач; pl, Buczacz; yi, בעטשאָטש, Betshotsh or (Bitshotsh); he, בוצ'אץ' ''Buch'ach''; german: Butschatsch; tr, Bucaş) is a city located on the Strypa River (a tributary of the Dniester) in Chortkiv Raion of T ...
,
Chortkiv Raion
Chortkiv Raion ( uk, Чортківський район) is a raion in Ternopil Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Chortkiv. It has a population of
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukrain ...
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
Western Ukraine
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, May 24, 1940.
In 1965, she graduated from
Lviv Polytechnic
Lviv Polytechnic National University ( ua, Націона́льний університе́т «Льві́вська політе́хніка») is the largest scientific university in Lviv, Ukraine. Since its foundation in 1816, it has bee ...
, and in 1991, from the Moscow Correspondence University of Arts.
From 1965 till 1996, Durda worked as a design engineer at the Ternopil Combine Plant, a chemical plant in
Donetsk
Donetsk ( , ; uk, Донецьк, translit=Donets'k ; russian: Донецк ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin and Stalino (see also: Names of European cities in different languages (C–D), cities' alternat ...
. Since 2003, she has been teaching at Ternopil Secondary School No. 24 and the Malvy Cultural and Art Center.
Durda has focused on her creative work since 1996, including portraits, landscapes, and
still life
A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, m ...
s, but has participated in art exhibitions since 1979. She has had solo exhibitions in
Ternopil
Ternópil ( uk, Тернопіль, Ternopil' ; pl, Tarnopol; yi, טאַרנאָפּל, Tarnopl, or ; he, טארנופול (טַרְנוֹפּוֹל), Tarnopol; german: Tarnopol) is a city in the west of Ukraine. Administratively, Ternopi ...
in 1997, 2003, and 2007), and in Buchach (2006).
She created illustrations for Marta Chopik's children's book, ''А що бачать очка'' (And What the Glasses See), as well as for her own books: ''На грані: Вірші, пісні'' (On the Verge: Poems, Songs) (2001), ''іка життя: Поеми, поезії'' (River of Life: Poems, Poetry) (2003), and ''Лабіринти долі'' (Labyrinths of Fate) (2006; all — Тернопіль).
Durda was a participant in the All-Ukrainian festival of author's songs "Oberig-93" in
Lutsk
Lutsk ( uk, Луцьк, translit=Lutsk}, ; pl, Łuck ; yi, לוצק, Lutzk) is a city on the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Volyn Oblast (province) and the administrative center of the surrounding Luts ...
. She has written lyrics for more than 100 songs.
Selected works
Works of art
* ''Квіти'' (Flowers) (1991)
* ''Старий парк'' (Old Park) (1994)
* ''Польові квіти'' (Wildflowers) (1995)
* ''К. Білокур'' (K. Bilokur) (1996)
* ''Над греблею'' (Over the Dam) (1998)
* ''Після концерту (С. Крушельницька)'' (After the Concert (S. Krushelnytska)) (2000)
* ''М. Башкирцева'' (M. Bashkirtseva) (2002)
* ''Осінь'' (Autumn) (2003)
Literature
* ''Гриб А. Барвисті джерела. Т.'', 1998
* ''Na hrani'', 2001
* ''Rika z︠h︡ytt︠i︡a: poemy, poeziï'', 2003
References
Sources
* Demyanova I., Shcherbak L. Durda Bohdana Yosypivna // ''Ternopil encyclopedic dictionary: in 4 volumes'' / editor: G. Yavorsky and others. - Ternopil: Publishing and Printing Plant "Zbruch", 2010. - Vol. 4: A - I (additional). - P. 219. - ISBN 978-966-528-318-8. (in Ukrainian)
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1940 births
Living people
People from Buchach
Lviv Polytechnic alumni
20th-century Ukrainian engineers
20th-century Ukrainian women artists
21st-century Ukrainian women artists
20th-century Ukrainian poets
21st-century Ukrainian poets
20th-century Ukrainian women writers
21st-century Ukrainian women writers
Ukrainian songwriters
Ukrainian women poets
Design engineering