Teodozia Bryzh

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Teodozia Bryzh' tomb at Lychakiv Cemetery

Teodozia Markivna Bryzh (18 February 1929 – 4 July 1999) was a Ukrainian sculptor, Honored Artist of Ukraine (1997), Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.[1]

Life

Teodozia Bryzh was born on 18 February 1929 in the village Berezhnytsia, Sarny district.[2] Bryzh graduated from Sarny Gymnasium. In 1954, she graduated from the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts. Among her teachers are Ivan Severa and Leopold Levitsky. Bryzh lived and worked in Lviv.[2]

Career

Bryzh created more than two hundred sculptures, among them are monuments, tombstones, memorial plaques, decorative and park sculptures. Bryzh's series of works based on The Forest Song by Lesia Ukrainka are of significant interest.[1]

Bryzh realized many art projects with her husband Yevhen Beznisk, a monumental and graphic artist from Lviv.

Vasylko Romanovych, built in Volodymyr-Volynsky.[3]

The sculptures of Bryzh are characterized by plasticity, elegance, and lightness. Bryzh was one of the first sculptors in Ukraine to follow the path of contemporary world art in the 1960s.[4]

Teodozia Bryzh died on 4 July 1999 in Lviv. She is buried in Lychakiv Cemetery.[5]

Commemoration

There is a memorial museum of Bryzh on 5, Martovycha Street in Lviv.[1] A street in Rivne is named after Teodozia Bryzh.

Selected works

  • Memorial complex in memory of the victims of fascism in Volodymyr-Volynskyi. Co-authors sculptor Yevhen Dzyndra, architect Yaroslav Nazarkevych. Built in 1965, reconstructed in 1985.
  • Monument to Soviet soldiers in the village of Khorobriv (1975)
  • Monument to Yuri Velykanovych on Myshuha Street in Lviv (1982, architect Lydia Lesova)
  • Tombstones of Solomiya Krushelnytska, Ivan Krypyakevych, Leopold Levytsky, Oleksa Shatkivsky at Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv
  • Chapel-monument to the victims of communist repressions (1995, castle park in Zolochev; co-authored with sculptor Vasyl Kamenshchyk, artists – Eugene and Yarema Bezniska)[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Theodosia Markovna Brizh (born in 18.02.1929) – Biography, Interesting Facts, Famous Artworks". Arthive. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Віктор, Гуменний (11 February 2016). "Львів'янка, що творила історію скульптури з нової сторінки: творча історія Теодозії Бриж • Фотографії старого Львова". Фотографії старого Львова (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 10 March 2022.
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  6. ^ "Капличка-пам'ятник жертвам комуністичних репресій – "Золочів.нет"". 22 October 2017. Archived from the original on 22 October 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
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