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Bookplate

Pavlo Kovzhun

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-IV-591
Author: Pavlo Kovzhun
Name: Bookplate
Technique: woodcut
Material: paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 7.8 x 6

Additionally

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

Information about author

Author: Pavlo Kovzhun
Artist's lifetime: 1896–1939
Country: Ukraine
Biography: Pavlo Kovzhun (3 October 1896, Kostiushky village, now Ovruch District, Zhytomyr Region – 15 May 1939, Lviv) is an outstanding Ukrainian graphic artist, painter, art critic and public figure, a representative of Futurism and Constructivism with elements of Ukrainian Baroque. He is one of the most outstanding students and followers of Heorhii Narbut. He grew up in the Kyiv region and Crimea, in the ancient district of Ak-Mechet, on the outskirts of modern Simferopol. The artist studied at Kyiv Art School (1911–1915). From 1921, he lived and worked in Lviv. Pavlo Kovzhun founded the first Ukrainian Futurist art group, "Kvero" (1914). He was a co-founder (together with P. Kholodnyi, M. Holubets, S. Tymoshenko, and R. Lisovskyi) of the following Lviv art associations: Group of Ukrainian Artists (HDUM, 1922–1926) and Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists (ANUM, 1931–1939). Between 1928 and 1938, Mykhailo Osinchuk and Pavlo Kovzhun painted the churches of Galicia with complex ornamental compositions in the Ukrainian-Byzantine style. Pavlo Kovzhun focused on book graphics (covers, bookplates, publishing marks, posters, initials, and caricatures) in his work. He wrote articles on artistic topics and essays about cultural figures. He was an editor of the magazines "Mytusa" and "Mystetstvo". In the 1930s, Kovzhun gave a series of lectures on the history of Ukrainian art at the Ukrainian Scientific Institute in Berlin. Pavlo Kovzhun's graphic works were repeatedly exhibited at international exhibitions in Prague (1924), Brussels (1927), Los Angeles (1931), Berlin (1937), and Rome (1938).

Object description

The bookplate area includes the author's initials, "P.K.", placed at the bottom in the corners.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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