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Peasant Standing in Church

Hryhorii Kruk

Basic information

ID: С-I-2287
Author: Hryhorii Kruk
Name: Peasant Standing in Church
Date of creation: 1938
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire
Culture: Eastern Europe
Technique: casting
Material: bronze
Dimensions: 70 x 27.5 x 23.5 cm (height x width x depth)

Additionally

Type: sculpture 3D
Genre: narrative art
Provenance: A gift from Tetiana Anna Tarapatska-Shafoval and Doctor M. Shafoval, 2007
Exposition: Lozinski Palace

Information about author

Author: Hryhorii Kruk
Author in the original: 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.

Object description

A small bronze sculpture. A peasant standing in a church, holding his headdress in his hands. His head is obediently lowered down as if immersed in prayer.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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