- Vasyl Krychevsky
Infobox Person
name = Vasyl Krychevsky
caption = Krychevsky - 1928
birth_date =January 12 ,1873
birth_place =Vorozhba ,Kharkov Governorate ,Russian Empire (nowUkraine )
death_date =November 15 ,1952
death_place =Caracas ,Venezuala
other_names = Василь Кричевський
known_for =
occupation = painter,architect ,graphic artist
nationality = UkrainianVasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky ( _uk. Василь Григорович Кричевський;
January 12 ,1873 inVorozhba ,Kharkov Governorate -November 15 ,1952 inCaracas ,Venezuela ) was a Ukrainian painter,architect ,art scholar ,graphic artist , and master ofapplied art anddecorative art . He was the brother of Ukrainian painterFedir Krychevsky .Life
Vasyl Krychevsky was born in the village of Vorozhba, near
Lebedyn , to the family of aJew ish country doctor who converted to Orthodox Christianity and married a Ukrainian woman.Krychevsky had little formal education, but a deep interest in
Ukrainian folklore andart history . During the First World War, he was one of the founders and rectors of the Ukrainian State Academy of Arts. [cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/pages/U/K/UkrainianStateAcademyofArts.htm|title=Ukrainian State Academy of Arts|accessdate=2008-04-22|date=1993|last=Bilokin|first=Serhii|work=Encyclopedia of Ukraine |language=English] In the 1920s he taught at the Kiev Institute of Plastic Arts, the Kiev Architectural Institute, and theOdessa Art School. He then served in the architectural department of the Kiev State Art Institute until 1941.Krychevsky moved to
Lviv in 1943 where he was appointed arector of a new Ukrainian art school, the Higher Art Studio. After the World War Two, he lived briefly inParis before immigrating toSouth America in 1947.cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?AddButton=pagesKRKrychevskyVasylH.htm|title=Vasyl Krychevsky|accessdate=2008-04-22|date=1989|last=Hordynsky|first=Sviatoslav|coauthors=Vadym Pavlovsky|work=Encyclopedia of Ukraine |language=English] He died inCaracas , the capital ofVenezuela onNovember 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.cite book|title=Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917|last=Hamm|first=Michael F.|year=1993|publisher=Princeton University Press |location=|isbn=0691025851|pages=pg. 114]As a painter, he created a total of about 300 paintings. His work was influenced by
French impressionism . [cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?AddButton=pagesIMImpressionism.htm|title=Impressionalism|accessdate=2008-04-22|last=Hordynsky|first=Sviatoslav|work=Encyclopedia of Ukraine |language=English]It was at the request of President
Mykhailo Hrushevsky that Krychevsky designed the state emblems and seals of theUkrainian People's Republic [cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?AddButton=/pages/t/r/trident.htm|title=Trident|accessdate=2008-04-22|date=1993|last=Zhukovsky|first=Arkadii|work=Encyclopedia of Ukraine |language=English] as well as the Republic's bank notes. Krychevsky was a collector and student of Ukrainian folk art, and promoted such handicrafts among common people.From 1907 to 1910, Krychevsky designed sets and
costume s for over 15plays andoperas including Mykhailo Starytsky's "Bohdan Khmelnytsky" andBedřich Smetana 's "The Bartered Bride ". From 1917–18 he worked with the Ukrainian National Theater.References
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