Bookplate "From the Books of Rom. Ivanets"

Ivan Ivanets

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-IV-595
Author: Ivan Ivanets
Name: Bookplate "From the Books of Rom. Ivanets"
Technique: woodcut
Material: paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 8.1 x 5.6

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

Information about author

Author: Ivan Ivanets
Artist's lifetime: 1893–1946
Country: Ukraine
Biography: Ivan Ivanets (January 9, 1893, Novosilky-Gostynni, Lviv region – March 10, 1946, Solikamsk, Perm region, Russia) was a Ukrainian artist, editor, publisher, photographer, socio-cultural and military figure. He graduated from a gymnasium in Lviv. He studied law at Lviv University. At the same time, he studied painting in the studio of S. Batovsky-Kachor and at the Free Academy of Arts (1912–1914). He studied at the Ukrainian Studio of Plastic Arts and Charles University (1926–1927). With the outbreak of the First World War, he joined the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (USR), where he became the head of the "Press Headquarters" organisation to collect materials for the history of the USR. He designed the uniform and the Flag of the USR Legion. The main part of the artist's paintings and graphic works depicted the heroics and life of the USR. Ivan Ivanets was the author of historical and battle compositions, landscapes, portraits, Sich Riflemen photos, bookplates, memoirs about the USR, and articles on artistic themes. He illustrated many publications about the life of Sich Riflemen and calendars-almanacks. Most works were performed under the influence of Expressionism and in a Post-Impressionist style. Ivan Ivanets was a member of the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists (ANUM); he participated in the exhibitions of the Ukrainian Society of Art Supporters (UTPM) and the Polish Society of Friends of Fine Arts (TPSP). In 1941–1944, he was the director of the Lviv Art Gallery. After the end of World War II, he moved to Krakow, where he was arrested by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs and taken to the Urals. He died in the Soviet concentration camp in Solikamsk. Most of Ivanets' photographic works were lost in 1920, and 17 oil paintings from the collection of the National Museum in Lviv were destroyed in 1952. His works are kept in public and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.

Object description

Bookplate "From the Books of Rom. Ivanets".

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Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

Bookplate "From the Books of Rom. Ivanets"

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