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Bookplate of Vasyl Sofronov-Levytskyi

Sviatoslav Hordynskyi

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-IV-583
Author: Sviatoslav Hordynskyi
Name: Bookplate of Vasyl Sofronov-Levytskyi
Technique: linocut
Material: paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 7.9 x 5.5

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

Information about author

Author: Sviatoslav Hordynskyi
Artist's lifetime: 1906–1993
Country: Ukraine, the USA
Biography: Sviatoslav Hordynskyi (December 30, 1906, Kolomyia – May 20, 1993, Verona, New Jersey, USA) was an outstanding Ukrainian monumental artist, graphic artist, art critic, poet, translator, editor, and journalist. He was a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (1952). He received secondary education at the Ukrainian Academic Gymnasium in Lviv (1924). He studied at the art school of O. Novakivskyi, at the Berlin Academy of Arts (1928) and the Académie Moderne of F. Léger in Paris (1929). In 1931, he became a co-founder of the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists (Lviv) and was the editor of the magazine "Art". After World War II, he was held in camps for displaced persons in Munich. In 1949, he moved to the United States (Verona), where he became a co-founder of the Association of Ukrainian Artists in America (OMUA). He participated in exhibitions of Ukrainian graphic art in Warsaw (1932), Berlin (1933), Rome (1938), the USA, and Canada. Hordynskyi decorated over thirty churches in Europe, America, and Australia as a monumental artist. The painter's artistic heritage includes picturesque landscapes, covers for works of art, bookplates, posters, and postcards. Sviatoslav Hordynskyi is the author of numerous poetry collections and works on art criticism ("M. Hlushchenko" (1934), "Taras Shevchenko – the Painter" (1942), "Pavlo Kovzhun" (1944), etc.). The artist's works are kept in state museums and private collections in Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Austria, the USA, and Canada.

Object description

Bookplate of Vasyl Sofronov-Levytskyi.

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Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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