Hanna Vasylashchuk

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Hanna Wassyliwna Wassylaschtschuk ( Ukrainian Ганна Василівна Василащук , Russian Анна Васильевна Василащук Anna Vasilyevna Wassilaschtschuk * 2 November 1924 in Pistyn , Province Stanisławów , Second Polish Republic ; † 27. June 2004 in Sheshory , Rajon Kosiv of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast , Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian decorative arts ( art weaving ) artist .

life and work

Hanna Wassylaschtschuk was the daughter of a poor peasant family in the village Pistyn (other sources referred to in the neighboring village Sheshory / Шешори ) in today's Rajon Kosiv in Huzulenland to the world. In 1936 she finished fifth grade at the local school and was forced to go to work for a living. During the German-Soviet War , the front line ran through her birthplace, which meant that her parents' house burned down and she moved to the neighboring village of Scheschory. She learned to weave from her grandmother and later from her mother. Her grandmother introduced her to the secrets of weaving and taught her the importance of individual patterns and national color symbolism. Hanna Vasylashchuk was able to artfully process the traditional knowledge in new cloths.

She created a total of over 150 cloths with motifs on Ukrainian history and poems by Iwan Franko , Wassyl Symonenko, Wassyl Stefanyk , Marko Tscheremschyna and Olha Kobyljanska . Her masterpiece was a cycle of 40 cloths based on poems by Taras Shevchenko . This cycle was used in 1971 by the graphic artist and book designer Volodymyr Yurtschyschyn (Ukrainian Володимир Іванович Юрчишин , 1935-2010) to design a book publication by Taras Shevchenko's Kobsar . In 1964, many of her works, especially those that she dedicated to T. Shevchenko's 150th birthday, were acquired by leading Ukrainian museums. In 1967, a solo exhibition of her works took place in the State Taras Shevchenko Museum in Kiev . Her work is now in many museums in Ukraine.

Honors

In 1968 Hanna Vasylashchuk received the Taras Shevchenko Prize for a cycle of Ukrainian woven folk cloths produced between 1965 and 1967.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurzbiografie Hanna Wassylaschtschuk on 1576.ua ; accessed on December 26, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b Entry on Hanna Vasylashchuk in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on December 26, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Article on .refine.org.ua ; accessed on December 26, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ a b Biography of Hanna Vasylashchuk in the Library of Ukrainian Art ; accessed on December 26, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ a b c Entry on Hanna Vasylashchuk on hromada.hu ; accessed on December 26, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  6. ↑ Short biography Hanna Wassylaschtschuk on the website of the Taras Shevchenko Prize Committee ; accessed on December 26, 2017 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Vasylashchuk, Hanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vasylashchuk, Hanna Wassyliwna (full name); Василащук, Ганна Василівна (Ukrainian); Василащу́к, Анна Васильевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian artist of decorative arts (art weaving)
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Pistyn , Stanisławów Voivodeship , Second Polish Republic
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 2004
Place of death Sheshory , Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast , Ukraine