Petro Cholodnyj

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Petro Iwanowytsch Cholodnyj ( Ukrainian Петро Іванович Холодний ; born December 6 . Jul / 18th December  1876 greg. In Pereiaslav , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 7. June 1930 in Warsaw , Poland ) was a Ukrainian artists, scientists and politicians.

Life

Petro Cholodnyj attended the 4th grammar school in Kiev and during the last two years of school he completed evening classes at the drawing school of Mykola Muraschko , where he received his artistic training.

In 1897 he graduated from the University of Kiev with a focus on "Mathematics and Mineralogy" and from 1898 taught at the Faculty of Physics at the Kiev Engineering School. In 1906 he became the rector of the Kiev School of Economics, and in March 1917 he became the first director of the Ukrainian school in Kiev. His artistic career began in 1910 with the publication of his works in the exhibition of Ukrainian art in Kiev. Since that time he has also dealt with ancient Ukrainian art and has become an expert on ancient Ukrainian icons - and painting techniques. From 1916 he began to use these techniques and gave them certain stylistic characteristics of Byzantine art . So, together with Mychajlo Bojtschuk and Oleksa Novakivskyj, he became one of the founders of so-called "Neo-Visantynism" ( неовізантинізму ), contemporary art in the Ukrainian, national style.

After the establishment of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR), he became a member of the Ukrainian Central Na Rada . In the autumn of 1917 he became the Deputy Minister of Education, and as the latter was responsible for developing the foundations of the organization of Ukrainian education and the arts. He then became the Minister for Education of the UNR.

After the end of the People's Republic, he first went into exile with the government-in-exile in Tarnów in western Galicia . In 1921 he moved to Mykolaiv ( Stanislav Voivodeship ) and in 1922 to Lviv . The 1920s became an active, creative period for the artist. He dealt with monumental and panel painting and created decorative art, which he exhibited in Lviv. His glass and wall paintings can be found in many western Ukrainian churches, including the Assumption Cathedral in Lviv.

Petro Cholodnyj wrote several scientific papers that were published by the Shevchenko Scientific Society . He died in Warsaw in 1930 at the age of 54. In 1931, a posthumous exhibition with more than 350 exhibits by the artist was held in the National Museum in Lviv.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ J. Bahlcke, Joachim, S. Rohdewald, T. Wünsch (eds.): Religious places of remembrance in East Central Europe: Constitution and competition across nations and epochs. Akademie-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-05-005658-6 , p. 48; Retrieved April 10, 2017.
  2. ↑ Petro Cholodnyj on lvivcenter.org ; accessed on April 10, 2017 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Cholodnyj, Petro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cholodnyj, Petro Ivanovich (full name); Холодний, Петро Іванович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian artist, scientist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Perejaslav , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1930
Place of death Warsaw , Poland