Kornylo Mykolayovych Ustiyanovych (Ukrainian: Корни́ло Микола́йович Устияно́вич; 22 September 1839, Volkyv, Lviv Raion — 22 July 1903, Dolgoye, Drohobych Raion) was a Ukrainian painter, writer and folklorist. His paintings are largely in the Academic style.

Biography

His father , was a priest, poet and member of the Regional Diet. He began his education in

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, then completed it in

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. From 1858 to 1863, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, where he studied under the Polish painter,

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. While there, he was influenced by the works of

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and his political views were altered from Pan-Slavism to Ukrainian patriotism. He published his first poems in 1861. He became one of the first members of Prosvita, a Ukrainian nationalist organization, in 1868. After 1872, he lived in

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, where he began writing poems on folklore themes that were published in several journals devoted to the Ukrainian arts. He also wrote articles about the art of Galicia. From 1873 to 1874, he lived in what is now

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, with the family of , painting portraits and landscapes.Igor Duda, et al., '' Устиянович Корнило Миколайович'', ''

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'' His first icon was for a church in

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, which he worked on for two years. He was one of the first Ukrainian artists to portray

Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko ( uk, Тарас Григорович Шевченко , pronounced without the middle name; – ), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (a kobzar is a bard in Ukrainian culture), was a Ukraine, Ukrainian p ...

. From 1882 to 1883, he edited and illustrated a satirical magazine called ''The Mirror''. His political cartoons were praised by Ivan Franko. For a time, he worked as a scriptwriter and set designer for the

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. Over the course of his career, he created icons and murals for over fifty churches and painted approximately forty portraits. He died in 1903, while painting an

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in a small village, and was buried there. A monument to him has been erected near his birthplace, with a sculpture by Evgeny Dzindra (1913-1983). Most of his works were preserved at the

Lviv National Art Gallery Borys Voznytsky Lviv National Art Gallery ( uk, Львівська Національна Галерея Мистецтв імені Бориса Возницького) is the largest art museum in Ukraine, with over 62,000 artworks in its colle ...

. In 1991, a branch of the museum devoted to his work was opened near the monument.

References

External links

Detailed biography
@ ''Mykolayiv''
Biography and appreciation
@ the Lviv National Art Gallery {{DEFAULTSORT:Ustiyanovych, Kornylo 1839 births 1903 deaths People from Lviv Oblast People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Eastern Catholic poets Ukrainian Eastern Catholics Ukrainian male painters Ukrainian male poets Ukrainian nationalists