Bohdan Chanenko

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Bohdan Chanenko 1912

Bohdan Iwanowytsch Khanenko ( Ukrainian Богдан Іванович Ханенко , Russian Богдан Иванович Ханенко Bogdan Ivanovich Khanenko ; born March 11, jul. / 23. March  1849 greg. In Lotaki , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire , † May 26 jul. / 8. June  1917 greg. in Kiev , Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian antiques and art collector , philanthropist , archaeologist , entrepreneur and public figure.

Life

Bohdan Chanenko was born as the son of a Ukrainian aristocratic family descended from the Zaporozhian Cossacks on the estate near Surash that had been left to the family of Hetman Razumovsky .

He studied at the Law Faculty of Lomonosov University in Moscow and then became a judge in Saint Petersburg .

In 1876 he moved to Warsaw , where he worked as a judge at the local district court. Together with his wife Varvara Chanenko ( Варвара Ніколівна Ханенко ; 1852–1922), the daughter of the Kiev sugar producer Nikola Artemjewitsch Tereshchenko ( Никола Артемьевич Теремьевич Теременко ), he regularly went to and went to auctions in Warsaw from 1819–1903 in European auctions and went to major auctions in Warsaw Vienna , Madrid , Rome and Berlin . After retiring in 1881, he moved to Kiev.

The painting collection he acquired, which was considered the best collection of European paintings in the Russian Empire, included works by Ilya Repin , Karl Brjullow , Dmitri Levizk , Orest Kiprensky , Vladimir Borovikovsky and Vasily Perow , among others .

In Kiev he had the architect Meltser build a building for his collections in 1887, which is still to be found today. Today's Museum of Western and Oriental Art, Kiev, emerged from the collection he donated to the city of Kiev .

Khanenko was a permanent member of the Russian State Council , headed the Society for Antiques and Art in Kiev from 1897, was president of the All-Russian Union of Industrialists, a member of the Kiev Historical Society of Nestor the Chronicler ( Киевское общество летописца Нестора Honorary member of Nestor the Chronicler ) and an honorary member of Letopiszh Nestzaewsko of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts .

Honors

On January 17, 2019, the National Bank of Ukraine issued a 2 hryvnia silver coin in his memory .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Bohdan Chanenko dedicated himself to art thanks to his wife on kp.ua on January 23, 2019; accessed on March 12, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c d Museum of Arts named Barbara and Bogdan Khanenko on tour2kiev.com ; accessed on March 12, 2019
  3. ↑ Entry on Khanenko, Bohdan in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on March 12, 2019
  4. ↑ Commemorative coins of Ukraine on the website of the National Bank of Ukraine; Retrieved March 5, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Chanenko, Bohdan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chanenko, Bohdan Ivanovych (full name); Ханенко, Богдан Іванович (Ukrainian); Ханенко, Богдан Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian antiques and art collector, philanthropist, archaeologist, entrepreneur and public figure
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Lotaki , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1917
Place of death Kiev , Russian Empire