Yossyp Bokschaj
Jossyp Jossypowytsch Bokschaj ( Ukrainian Йосип Йосипович Бокшай , scientific transliteration Josyp Josypovyč Bokšaj ; born October 2, 1891 in Kobylezka Polyana , Kingdom of Hungary , today Transcarpathian Oblast ; † October 19, 1975 in Uzhhorod ) was a Ukrainian painter. Along with Adalbert Erdeli, he is the best-known representative of the so-called Transcarpathian School .
Life
Bokschaj, a priest's son, attended grammar school in Mukachevo and studied at the Budapest Art Academy with Imre Révész , a representative of critical realism , until 1914 .
Immediately after his studies - at the outbreak of the First World War - he was drafted into the Austrian army in September 1914 and was taken prisoner by the Russians in 1915. Initially imprisoned in the camp, he was later used as a prisoner in the construction of the railway in Yekaterinoslav . In his memoirs, he reports that in eastern Ukraine he was initially viewed as an “Austrian”, that is, as an enemy; when he called himself Ruthene , however, he was accepted as "one of ours".
In 1918 he was released to his homeland, initially worked as a painter in Uzhhorod and gave drawing lessons at the local high school. In 1921 - Carpathian Ukraine was now part of the young Czechoslovakia - Bokschaj took part in the region's first art exhibition and founded the Transcarpathian Artists Association in 1922. Together with Erdeli, Bokschaj founded the first art school in Karpato-Ukraine in 1927, which is still in existence today, initially as a technical college in Soviet times, today as the Bokschaj Erdeli art college .
Bokschaj created hundreds of landscape paintings and, especially in the Soviet era, realistic folk monumental works. The wall paintings of the cathedral in Uzhhorod were executed by him in 1939, as well as other church paintings in the Carpathian region as well as in Hungary and Slovakia. After the Second World War, the Carpathian Ukraine came to the Soviet Union; Bokschaj became one of the leading representatives of the Oblast Artists' Union in the 1950s and received the u. a. the award of People's Artist of the USSR . From 1951 to 1957 he taught at the Lviv Art Institute. He was also a corresponding member of the Soviet Art Academy since 1958. In total, Bokschaj took part in 73 exhibitions during his lifetime, including five solo exhibitions.
Yossyp Bokschaj died in Uzhhorod in 1975.
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| SURNAME | Bokschaj, Jossyp |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Йосип Йосипович Бокшай (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kobylezka Poljana , Kingdom of Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th October 1975 |
| Place of death | Uzhhorod |