Bookplate of Yur Mezhenko. 1926

Leonid Khyzhynskyi

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-IV-600
Author: Leonid Khyzhynskyi
Name: Bookplate of Yur Mezhenko. 1926
Date of creation: 1926
Country: the USSR
Technique: linocut
Material: paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 8.5 x 6.9

Additionally

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

Information about author

Author: Leonid Khyzhynskyi
Artist's lifetime: 1896–1972
Country: Ukraine, the USSR
Biography: Leonid Khyzhynskyi (January 3, 1896, Kyiv – December 27, 1972, Moscow) was a Ukrainian soviet graphic artist, illustrator and follower of Heorhii Narbut. He received his art education at the Kyiv Art School, where his teacher was H. Narbut. In 1920–1922, he studied at the Academy of Arts in Kyiv in the studio of M. Boichuk. In 1922–1927, he studied at the Saint Petersburg Higher Art and Technical Institute. From the 1930s, Khyzhynskyi lived in Saint Petersburg. From 1965, he lived in Moscow. He mainly worked in book graphics: covers, frontispieces, headpieces, brand names, and bookplates. He was engaged in engraving on wood and linoleum, etching and lithography. He designed works by Maksym Rylskyi, Mykola Bazhan, Gottfried Keller, Carlo Goldoni, Prosper Mérimée and others. Khyzhynskyi's works were displayed at the exhibitions of the ANUM in Lviv (1932, 1933–1934) and numerous other city, republican, All-Union, and foreign art exhibitions.

Object description

Bookplate of Yur Mezhenko. 1926.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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