Novakivskij - Digging at the garden 1920

Oleksa Kharlampiyovych Novakivskyi (Ukrainian: Оле́кса Харла́мпійович Новакі́вський; 14 March 1872, Obodyvka, Trostianets Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast — 29 August 1935,

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painter and art teacher; known largely as an

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Biography

He was born to a forester who worked at the estate of an aristocratic Polish family. A local nobleman took note of his talent and provided the means for him to pursue an artistic education. From 1888 to 1892, he studied in

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with the watercolorist and decorative painter, Filip Klimenko (1862-c.1917). Further support enabled him to transfer to the

Kraków 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 ...

, where he worked with

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(until his death) then

Leon Wyczółkowski Leon Jan Wyczółkowski (; 24 April 1852 – 27 December 1936) was one of the leading Painting, painters of the Young Poland movement, as well as the principal representative of Polish Realism (arts), Realism in art of Polish culture in the Inter ...

, among others.H.F. Kovpanenko
"Новаківський Олекса Харлампійович"
@ the Institute of Ukrainian History. He graduated in 1900. For about ten years, he lived in the village of Mogila, now on the Polish-Ukrainian border. He shared a house with an elderly widow whose daughter he later married. His first exhibit was with the Society for the Development of Russian Art, in 1901, but he achieved little attention until his personal exhibition in Kraków in 1911. He moved to

in 1913, with the patronage of the Metropolitan Archbishop,

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. Shortly after, he started his own art school. Most of the noted painters of early twentieth-century Galicia studied there, at least briefly. His most successful exhibition came in 1921. From 1924 to 1925, he was Dean of Arts at the . He is buried in

Lychakiv Cemetery Lychakiv Cemetery ( uk, Личаківський цвинтар, translit=Lychakivs’kyi tsvyntar; pl, Cmentarz Łyczakowski we Lwowie), officially State History and Culture Museum-Preserve "Lychakiv Cemetery" ( uk, Державний істор ...

. In 1972, the was established in Lviv.
Ukrainian Art Library, 1983.
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References

External links

@ Izbornyk * ''Oleksa Novakivskyi'', a monograph by Volodymyr Zalozetskyi

@ the

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* Ukrainian Artists: Novakivskyi
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Biography and paintings
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