Mychajlo Boychuk
Mychajlo Lwowytsch Bojtschuk ( Ukrainian Михайло Львович Бойчук ; born October 30, 1882 in Romaniwka , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; † July 13, 1937 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian artist and painter.
Life
In 1898 Bojtschuk studied with Julian Pankewytsch ( Юліан Іванович Панькевич , 1863-1933) in Lemberg , 1899 at an art school in Vienna and then until 1905 at the Academy of Arts in Krakow . He then studied at the art academies in Munich and Vienna and exhibited his work in 1905 in Lviv in 1905 and in 1907 in Munich in 1907. Between 1907 and 1910 he lived in Paris . After a trip to Italy in 1910/11, where he studied the works of monumental art, worked as a restorer for the National Museum in Lviv. In 1911 he toured Kiev, Saint Petersburg , Moscow and Novgorod . After the October Revolution he lived in Kiev and became a founding professor of the Ukrainian State Academy of Arts , where he taught monumental art and was also its rector for a short time.
Mychajlo Bojchuk was arrested, interrogated and tortured by the NKVD on November 25, 1936 , and shot in Kiev on July 13, 1937. Four months later, his wife shared his fate.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article on Boichuk, Mykhailo in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on February 8, 2017
- ↑ Mychailo Bojtschuk's biography on uartlib.org; accessed on February 8, 2017 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Mychailo Bojchuk's biography on the website of the Ukrainian consulate in Rostov-on-Don; accessed on February 8, 2017 (Ukrainian)
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| SURNAME | Boychuk, Mychajlo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bojchuk, Mychajlo Lwowytsch (full name); Бойчук, Михайло Львович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian artist and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Romaniwka , Galicia , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 13, 1937 |
| Place of death | Kiev , Ukrainian SSR |