Vasyl Krychevsky

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Hryhorovych and the family name is Krychevsky.
Vasyl Krychevsky
Krychevsky in 1928
Born
Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky

(1873-01-12)January 12, 1873
Vorozhba, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
DiedNovember 15, 1952(1952-11-15) (aged 79)
Caracas, Venezuela
Resting placeSaint Andrew Cemetery, South Bound Brook, New Jersey, United States
NationalityUkrainian
EducationRailroad school, Kharkiv, Russian Empire
Known forPainting, drawing, architecture design, graphic design, film
Notable work
  • Poltava Governorate Administration building;
  • Shevchenko Museum in Kyiv;
  • Coat of arms of Ukraine, 1918;
  • Writers' building Rolit;
  • Zvenihora (movie, director A. Dovzhenko) Art and History advisor;
MovementUkrainian impressionism, Ukrainian Art Nouveau
SpouseYevheniya Scherbakyvska

Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky (

decorative art. He is the designer of the 1918 Ukrainian coat of arms, state seals, banknotes.[1] He was the brother of Ukrainian painter Fedir Krychevsky.[2]

Biography

Vasyl Krychevsky was born in the village of Vorozhba, near

Orthodox Christianity
and married a Ukrainian woman, Praskovia Hryhorivna.

Abram Manevich, Oleksandr Murashko, Fedir Krychevsky, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ivan Steshenko, Mykola Burachek, standing: Heorhiy Narbut, Vasyl Krychevsky, Mykhailo Boychuk
.

Krychevsky had little formal education, but a deep interest in

Ukrainian State Academy of Arts.[3] In the 1920s he taught at the Kyiv Institute of Plastic Arts, the Kyiv Architectural Institute. Among the students – Joseph Karakis, who studied from Krychevsky "Interior of residential and public buildings" as well as painting techniques.[4][5] He then taught at the Odesa
Art School and served in the architectural department of the Kiev State Art Institute until 1941.

Krychevsky moved to Lviv in 1943 where he was appointed a rector of a new Ukrainian art school, which eventually became the Lviv National Academy of Arts. After the World War II, he lived briefly in Paris before immigrating to South America in 1948.[6] He died in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela on November 15, 1952.

Artistic career

Krychevsky first gained public recognition in 1903 when he won the architectural competition to build the Poltava Zemstvo Building (now the Poltava Regional Studies Museum). His design of the building was based on the traditions of Ukrainian folk architecture.[7]

As a painter, he created a total of about 3000 paintings, drawings, ornamental designs, bookcovers.

French impressionism.[8]

It was at the request of President Mykhailo Hrushevsky that Krychevsky designed the state emblems and seals of the Ukrainian People's Republic[9] as well as the Republic's banknotes. Krychevsky was a collector and student of Ukrainian folk art, and promoted such handicrafts among common people.

From 1907 to 1910, Krychevsky designed

Mykhailo Starytsky's Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Bedřich Smetana's The Bartered Bride. From 1917 to 18 he worked with the Ukrainian National Theater.[6]

On several projects Krychevsky worked along with another Ukrainian architect Petro Kostyrko who in 1960 did reconstruction of the former Poltava Governorate Administration building. Some of his works are present abroad, the largest set of works is in the Ukrainian Museum in New York.

Gallery

  • Poltava Governorate Administration building, 1903
    Poltava Governorate Administration building, 1903
  • Coat of arms of Ukraine, 1917
    Coat of arms of Ukraine, 1917
  • Two hryvnia banknote, 1918
    Two
    hryvnia
    banknote, 1918
  • Rolit building of writers, along with Petro Kostyrko
    Rolit building of writers, along with Petro Kostyrko
  • Pottery training and exhibition center (Poltava), 1916
    Pottery training and exhibition center (Poltava), 1916
  • Shevchenko museum, 1928
    Shevchenko museum, 1928
  • Shchitkivsky building, 1908
    Shchitkivsky building, 1908
  • Kyiv apartment house
    Kyiv apartment house

See also

  • Ukrainian Venezuelan

Further reading

Notes

  1. ^ "Entry Display Web Page".
  2. ^ Krychevsky, Vasyl H. Encyclopedia of Ukraine
  3. ^ Bilokin, Serhii (1993). "Ukrainian State Academy of Arts". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 2008-04-22.
  4. ^ Юнаков 2016, p. 53.
  5. OCLC 985974453.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  6. ^ a b c Hordynsky, Sviatoslav; Vadym Pavlovsky (1989). "Vasyl Krychevsky". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 2008-04-22.
  7. ISBN 0-691-02585-1
    .
  8. ^ Hordynsky, Sviatoslav. "Impressionalism". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 2008-04-22.
  9. ^ Zhukovsky, Arkadii (1993). "Trident". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 2008-04-22.

References

  • Юнаков, О. (2016). Архитектор Иосиф Каракис. Алмаз.
    ISBN 978-1-68082-000-3
    .
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