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Hryhorii Kruk

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ID: Ф-Рукописи-Арх-ЛНГМ-27
Author: Hryhorii Kruk
Technique: postcard

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Genre: epistolary
Place: Federal Republic of Germany (?)

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Author: Hryhorii Kruk
Artist's lifetime: 1911–1988
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire
Biography: Hryhorii Kruk (1911, Bratyshiv – 1988, Munich) was a Ukrainian sculptor and graphic artist who worked in Germany. He studied at the Krakow Academy of Art under Konstanty Laszczka and, with the assistance of Bohdan Lepkyi, moved to Berlin but was not immediately able to enter the academy there. With the help of Fedir Yemets, who worked at the Academy of Arts, the future artist enrolled in Professor Alfred Vocke's sculpture class, who, after noticing the student's skills, solicited a scholarship for him and after his graduation, helped him with orders and commissions. In 1939, after the outbreak of the Second World War, he was allowed to remain in Berlin but lost his scholarship. Hryhorii was transferred to Arno Breker's class. He also studied with professors Otto Hitzberger and August Krantz. In 1945, he moved to Munich. Hryhorii Kruk exhibited 28 sculptures and drawings in London, Edinburgh, and Bonn. In 1961, 35 of his works were exhibited in New York and Philadelphia and later in Vienna.

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