Oksana Ljaturynska

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Oksana Ljaturynska

Oksana Sinajida Mychajliwna Ljaturynska ( Ukrainian Оксана Зінаїда Михайлівна Лятуринська , Czech Oksana Ljaturynska , English Oksana Liaturynska ; born January 19, jul. / 1. February  1902 greg. In Chomy at Stary Oleksynez , volhynian governorate , Russian Empire ; † 13 June 1970 in Minneapolis , United States ) was a Ukrainian poet and sculptor.

Life

Oksana Ljaturynska was born on a Lisky ( Ліски ) farm in what is now Chomy ( Хоми ) in the Ukrainian oblast of Ternopil , Sbarash district, as the daughter of an officer and a mother who was descended from German colonists. In Kremenez she attended high school and wrote her first poems. After her father decided to marry her against her will at the age of 20, she fled to relatives who lived with Katerynivka . They supported her financially so that she could travel to Germany to see her brother Iwan.

In 1924 she moved to possess without a residence permit, the Czechoslovak Prague , where they also live in exile, Ukrainian poets such acquaintance Yevhen Malanjuk , Oleksa Stefanowytsch ( Олекса Коронатович Стефанович ; 1899-1970), Olena Teliha and Oleh Olzhych closed and active participated in the social and cultural life of Ukrainian emigrants. After graduating from high school, she studied at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University , at the Czech School of Applied Arts and between 1928 and 1931 at the Ukrainian Art Studio ( Українська студія пластичного мистецтва ). She also became a member of the Ukrainian Association of Artists, Writers and Journalists in Prague. She created numerous sculptures, busts of Taras Shevchenko , Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk , Symon Petljura and Jewhen Konowalez , some tombstones in Prague cemeteries and in 1932 a memorial for the fallen soldiers of the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic in Pardubice .

A talented and recognized artist for portrait sculpture, Ljaturynska took part in art exhibitions in London , Paris and Berlin . Her poems have been published in various magazines and in 1938 her collection of poems Husla ( Гусла ) appeared in Prague and in 1941 the collection Knjascha emal ( Княжа емаль ), dedicated to the memory of the poet Jurij Darahan . During the Second World War , she almost completely lost her hearing. After the war ended, she lived in a camp for displaced persons in Aschaffenburg, West Germany , in 1945 and emigrated to the United States in 1949, where she settled in Minneapolis with the help of the Ukrainian Union . There she devoted herself to social and creative work, created other sculptures and wrote poems, which she published in collections. Ljaturynska died of lung cancer at the age of 68 in a hospital in Minneapolis. The urn containing her ashes was buried in St. Andrew's Cemetery in South Bound Brook , New Jersey , across from the grave of Yevhen Malanyuk. She is considered one of the most talented members of the “Prague School” of Ukrainian poetry .

Web links

Commons : Oksana Ljaturynska  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ternopil Oblast Information Portal ; accessed on February 6, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ entry to Oksana Ljaturynska in the Encyclopedia of modern Ukraine ; accessed on February 6, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Biography of Oksana Ljaturynska in the Library of Ukrainian Literature ; accessed on February 6, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Ljaturynska, Oksana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ljaturynska, Oksana Sinajida Mychajliwna (full name); Лятуринська, Оксана Зінаїда Михайлівна (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian poet and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Chomy near Staryj Oleksynez , Volyn Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1970
Place of death Minneapolis , United States