Dmytro Antonovych

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Dmytro Antonovytsch before 1920
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Dmytro Wolodymyrowytsch Antonowytsch ( Ukrainian Дмитро Володимирович Антонович ; born November 3 . Jul / 15. November  1877 greg. In Kiev , Russian Empire ; † 12. October 1945 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) was a Ukrainian art historian and minister .

Life

Dmytro Antonowytsch was born in Kiev as the son of the historian and ethnographer Volodymyr Antonowytsch . In 1900 he was a co-founder and until 1905 a board member of the Ukrainian Revolutionary Party , from which the Ukrainian Social Democratic Workers' Party (USDRP) emerged in 1905 . From 1912 he taught art history at the Kiev Music and Drama School M. Lyssenko .

After the February Revolution in 1917 he became a member of the Central Na Rada , the revolutionary parliament of Ukraine. In January 1919 he was also a member of the Russian Constituent Assembly . From January 6 to February 9, 1918 he was Minister of the Navy, first in the General Secretariat of the Ukrainian Central Na Rada and then in the Ukrainian People's Republic, and from December 26, 1918 to February 13, 1919, he was its Minister of Art. Subsequently he was head of the diplomatic mission of the Ukrainian People's Republic in Rome .

After the loss of Ukrainian independence, Antonovych went into exile and was an organizer and rector of the Ukrainian Free University, first in Vienna and then in Prague, where he also taught as a professor of art history. He was also director of the Museum of the Ukrainian Struggle for Independence in Prague and President of the Ukrainian Historical-Philological Society for a long time.

family

Dmytro Antonowytsch was the husband of the painter and art historian Kateryna Antonowytsch (1884-1975), with whom he had the sons Mychailo Antonowytsch (1910-1954) and Marko Antonowytsch (1916-2005) as well as the daughter Maryna Antonowytsch-Rudnyzka (1911-1997) .

Works (selection)

  • Ukrai͏̈ns'ka kul'tura, Munich, Ukrai͏̈n. Techn.-Hospodars'kyj Inst., 1988
  • German influences on Ukrainian art, Leipzig, Hirzel, 1942

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Web links

Commons : Dmytro Antonowytsch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on the Council of National Ministers of the Ukrainian National Republic in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on January 5, 2016
  2. ↑ entry to Antonovych, Dmytro in Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on January 5, 2016
  3. ↑ entry to Antonovych, Kateryna in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on January 5, 2016
  4. ↑ entry to Antonovych, Mykhailo in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on January 5, 2016
  5. ↑ entry to Antonovych, Marko in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on January 5, 2016
  6. ↑ Profile Maryna Antonowytsch-Rudnyzka on the website of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance ; accessed on January 5, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  7. ↑ DNB 123683971
personal data
SURNAME Antonovych, Dmytro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Antonovytsch, Dmytro Volodymyrowytsch (full name); Антонович, Дмитро Володимирович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian art historian and minister
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1945
Place of death Prague , Czechoslovakia