Modest Danylovych Sosenko ( uk, Модест Данилович Сосенко; 28 April 1875 — 4 February 1920) was a Ukrainian

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 monumental artist.

Life

Modest Sosenko was born in the village of Porohy of the Austrian Crown lands Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, in present-day Ivano-Frankivsk Raion of Ukraine, into the family of a priest.Modest Sosenko
in the Encyclopaedia of the History of Ukraine; retrieved 28 February 2021 (in Ukrainian). With the financial support of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky,Sosenko, Modest
in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine; retrieved 28 February 2021. he studied at the

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in Kraków from 1896 to 1900, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1901 and 1902, and at the

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in Paris from 1902 to 1905. He lived in Lviv from 1906, but travelled frequently to Italy in the years between 1908 and 1913, visited the Russian Ukraine in 1913, and Egypt and

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in 1914. Between 1916 and 1918, he served as a soldier in the Austrian army on the front lines of World War I. Sosenko painted portraits, genre scenes,

murals A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate. Mural techniques include fresco, mosaic, graffiti and marouflage. Word mural in art The word ''mural'' is a Spanish ...

, iconostases and church paintings. In the latter, he combined traditional Byzantine art with modern artistic approaches, making him a pioneer of

Boychukism Boychukism (in Ukrainian : ) is a cultural and artistic phenomenon in the history of Ukrainian art between the 1910s and 1930s, distinguished by its artistic monumental-synthetic style. It was an original school of Ukrainian art, formed by a synt ...

. He died in Lviv at the age of 44 and was buried there in the Janiwskyj cemetery.

References

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