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Bookplate of O. Slisarenko

Ivan Padalka

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-IV-610
Author: Ivan Padalka
Name: Bookplate of O. Slisarenko
Technique: woodcut
Material: paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 7.5 x 6.5

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: bookplate (ex libris)
Provenance: Yaroslava Muzyka Fund

Information about author

Author: Ivan Padalka
Artist's lifetime: 1894–1937
Country: Ukraine, the USSR
Biography: Ivan Padalka (November 15, 1894, Zhornoklovy, Poltava province, russian empire – July 13, 1937, Kyiv, the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs prison, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian artist and teacher of the Executed Renaissance. He was a student of artists Opanas Slastion and Mykhailo Boichuk. He was a Professor of painting at the Kyiv Art Institute. Also, he was the author of theoretical works in the magazines "New Art" and "Art". Ivan Padalka received his primary education at a rural parochial school. He continued his studies at the Art and Industrial School in Myrhorod, then at the Kyiv Art College. In 1917, he entered the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and became a student of Mykhailo Boichuk's workshop. Together with other Boichukists, he participated in the mural painting of the Lutsk military barracks in Kyiv. After graduating from the Academy (1920), he began teaching at the Myrhorod Art and Ceramics College and later at the Mezhyhiria College. In 1925-1936, Ivan Padalka taught at the Kharkiv Art and Industrial and Kyiv Art Institutes. The artist created graphic works and illustrated children's books. He was the author of covers for works of art and posters. He designed festive columns for revolutionary holidays, clubs, premises, propaganda steamers, and wagons. His works were successfully exhibited and sold at numerous European exhibitions: Cologne, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Danzig, Oslo, Venice, Zurich, Berlin, Vienna, London, Manchester, Liverpool, Prague, Paris, Bern, Geneva, Tokyo, Florence, Warsaw, and Copenhagen. The artist was shot together with V. Sedliar and M. Boichuk in 1937.

Object description

Bookplate of Oleksa Slisarenko.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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