Maria Markelivna Posobchuk (; 20 January 1890 – 27 March 1992) was a Ukrainian weaver and a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Her work is considered part of the same canon of Soviet folk art as

Maria Prymachenko Maria Oksentiyivna Prymachenko ( uk, Марія Оксентіївна Примаченко; – 18 August 1997) was a Ukrainian folk art painter, who worked in the naïve art style. A self-taught artist, she worked in painting, embroidery and ...

Biography

Posobchuk was born on 20 January 1890 in the village of

Obukhovychi Obukhovychi ( ua, Обуховичі) is a village ( ua, село) in Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast. It belongs to Ivankiv settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. History Until 18 July 2020, Obukhovychi belonged to Ivankiv Raion. The ...

, in the Kyiv oblast, to a peasant family. Her daughter was the textile artist

Hanna Veres Hanna Ivanovna Veres ( uk, 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 ...

(1928-2003), and her grandchildren included the artists Valentina and . All three were taught by Posobchuk and inherited her skills. Admitted as a member of the

Union of Artists of the USSR The Artists' Union of the USSR (russian: Союз художников СССР, translit=Soyuz khudozhnikov SSSR) was a creative union of the Soviet artists and art critics embracing the Republics of the Soviet Union. The Union was founded starte ...

in 1962, Posobchuk was a renowned textile artist. Her works included tablecloths, bedspreads, napkins and towels, all in a style unique to the region she was from. One of the patterns she was praised for her skill in was a chequerboard design. She died on 27 March 1992, aged 102. At the time of her death she was one of the oldest weavers in Ukraine.

Legacy

Posobchuk's work was folk art perceived as having flourished under Soviet rule. Similar folk artists are

, Tatiana Pata and Ivan Honchar. She was remembered as the founder of a familial dynasty of skilled Ukrainian women weavers. She was featured in a film. In 2020, the 130th anniversary of her birth was celebrated with a series of events in the region.

References

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