Vitold Antonovich Manastyrsky ( uk, Вітольд Антінович Манастирський, January 11, 1915 – June 23, 1992) was a Soviet artist, painter,
graphic artist, and teacher.
Manastyrsky was born in
Lviv
Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukrain ...
in the family of the Ukrainian artist
Antin Manastyrsky. Vitold Antonovich received his initial artistic education at the Lviv Art School (1929–1934), and graduated from the
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw ( pl, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie) is a public university of visual arts and applied arts located in the Polish capital. The Academy traces its history back to the Department of Arts founded at the Warsaw ...
(1935–1939).
Manastyrsky was a participant in many regional and international exhibitions. The artist taught drawing and painting at the Lviv Art-Industrial College (now the
Ivan Trush
Ivan Trush ( uk, Іван Труш, pronounced as ''Troosh'': 1869–1941) was a Ukrainian impressionist painter, a master of landscape and portraiture, an art critic, and active community patron of arts in Galicia or ''Halychyna'' - a historic ...
Applied Arts College) and was an instructor at
The Lviv National Academy of Arts since it opened. Manastyrsky died on June 23, 1992 and was buried in the
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 ...
.
External links
Entry in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine Painting by Manastyrsky in the collection of the Warsaw National Museum
Academic staff of the Lviv National Academy of Arts
1915 births
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw alumni
1992 deaths
Burials at Lychakiv Cemetery
Soviet painters
People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
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