Mykola Kasperovych

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Mykola Iwanowytsch Kasperowytsch ( Ukrainian Микола Іванович Касперович ; * 1885 in Lapyn Rih near Koselez , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire ; † May 7, 1938 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian painter and restorer.

Life

Mykola Kasperowytsch was born in the village of Lapyn Rih ( Лапин Ріг ) in Ujesd Koselez in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Chernihiv . He studied between 1901 and 1905 at the Moscow Academy of Art and Industry SG Stroganow and from 1905 under Julian Pankewytsch ( Юліан Якович Панькевич ; 1863-1933) at the Cracow Academy of Arts , which he graduated in 1909. He then went to Paris as a student of Mychajlo Bojtschuk , where in 1910 his works were exhibited as part of a group exhibition by Bojtschuk's students in the Salon des Indépendants .

Together with Mychajlo Bojtschuk he traveled to Italy in 1910 and then settled in Lviv in 1911 , where he studied art restoration with Ilarion Swjenzizkyj ( Іларіон Семенович Свєнціцький ; 1876–1956) in 1912/13 in the National Museum . In 1913 he restored, together with Mychajlo and Tymofij Bojchuk ( Тимофій Львович Бойчук ; 1896–1922) the iconostasis of the Trinity Church in Lemeschi in the Chernigov governorate. From 1918 to 1920 he taught drawing and sculpture at the Art Industrial Institute and at the Art Ceramics Institute in Myrhorod . From 1921 he was a professor at the Ukrainian Academy of Arts . From 1927 to 1930 he was head of the restoration workshop of the All-Ukrainian Museum Community in Kiev . He also carried out restoration work in the Kharkiv Museum of History and Art in 1928 and in the Museum of Russian Art and Museum of Western and Oriental Art in Kiev from 1935 to 1937 . In 1935 he restored the Wrubel iconostasis in the Church of St. Cyril in Kiev.

On March 3, 1938, he was arrested by the NKVD on charges of counter-revolutionary terrorist activity and executed in Kiev on May 7, 1938. After Stalin's death, he was rehabilitated as part of the de-Stalinization process.

Some of his works are in the National Museum in Lviv, as well as at the Universities of Philadelphia and New Jersey .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Entry on Mykola Kasperowytsch in the Ukrainian Art Library ; accessed on August 2, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c Entry on Kasperovych, Mykola in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on August 2, 2019
  3. ↑ a b c Entry on Mykola Kasperowytsch in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on August 2, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Kasperovych, Mykola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kasperowytsch, Mykola Ivanovich (full name); Касперович, Микола Іванович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian painter and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Lapyn Rih near Koselez , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1938
Place of death Kiev , Ukrainian SSR