Emil Telitsyn

Emil Telizyn , Ukrainian Еміль Теліжин , actually Omeljan Iwan Telischyn , Ukrainian Омелян Іван Теліжин (born January 18, 1930 in Rakiw , Ukrainian SSR ; † March 29, 2011 in Toronto , Canada ) was a Ukrainian - Canadian icon painter and painter , church decorator.

Life

Emil Telitsyn's real name was Omeljan Ivan Telischyn ( Омелян Іван Теліжин ) and came from Rakiv ( Раків ), a village in Dolyna district , Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast . He was the son of the Catholic priest Joseph († February 1968) and his wife Melanie Telizyn, nee Semkiw. He began his artistic training at the age of eleven. After the Second World War he came to Germany, where he continued his artistic training in Aschaffenburg from 1946 to 1949 . At the age of 15, under the guidance of his father, he designed liturgical vestments , which are now in this form in theSt. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Brantford , where the father was a pastor.

As a 19-year-old Omelan Telizyn came with his family to Hamilton in the Canadian province of Ontario , where he attended courses at a commercial art school from 1949 to 1950. He married in 1955 Nina Telizyn, born Mykolenko ( Ніна Теліжин, дівоче прізвище Миколенко ; 1926-2001), an opera singer and actress was founded in Toronto in 1953 Ukrainian Drama Theater "Zahrava" ( Український драматичний театр "Заграва" ). The couple's daughter, the classical pianist Daria Telitsyn , born in 1960 , died just four years after her mother. His main occupation was as a stage decorator for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the CTV broadcasting station CFTO-TV . For the “Zahrava” ensemble that his half-brother Zdzislaw directed, and for other ensembles he also worked as a stage painter.

He gained artistic importance after his time at CBC. He then worked as a church and icon painter in Canada, the United States and also in France , where he designed several churches and monuments. He became known as a sculptor and icon painter beyond the borders of Canada. For example, he created the icon "Mother of Divine Love of Ancaster" for the shrine of the Mount Mary Christian Retreat Center of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate (SSMI) in Ancaster . On the occasion of the millennium celebrations in 1988 on the anniversary of the baptism of Vladimir I , he was commissioned to design an approx. 30 m² large Christ mosaic above the entrance to the Ukrainian Catholic St. Nicholas Church in Winnipeg . In 1992 in Edmonton , Alberta, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Ukrainian immigration, he designed the leaded glass window of the Ukrainian Catholic St. Basil Church with the title "Immigration of Ukrainians to Canada". In 1996 he received the BAC Craft Award in the “Best Project in Mosaic” category. For the bronze monument of the Congregation of St. Basil's Priests (2003) in front of the Basilian Fathers Museum in Mundare , Alberta, he was given overall design direction.

Telizyn was a member of the International Enamel Society as well as a long-time member and temporarily chairman of the Ukrainian artists' band in Canada USOM (країнської Спілки Образотворчих Мистців Канади - УСОМ). He last suffered from Parkinson's disease . He died in Toronto- Scarborough . His body was buried in the family grave at St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Cemetery in Oakville .

Web links

• Emil Telizyn in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Ukrainian Drama Theater Zahrava –- Український драматичний театр "Заграва". ukrainiantoronto.ca.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Omelan (Emil) Ivan Telitsyn. GlobeLife, April 9, 2011.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Ukrainian-Canadian Artists - Sterling Demchinsky Fund. University of Manitoba .
4. ↑ Our Patroness , SSMI
5. ^ June Dutka: Present Building. St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church, Winnipeg.
6. ↑ In: Nasha Doroha: 1,300,000 Stories - an Anthology. 2012, p. 2.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Emil Telitsyn. USOM.