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Kornylo Ustiyanovych

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[[File:Ustyyanovych kornylo.jpg|thumb|185px|Kornylo Ustiyanovych]]
[[File:Кирило Устиянович Шевченко на засланні.jpg|thumb|325px|[[Taras Shevchenko]] in Exile]]
'''Kornylo Mykolayovych Ustiyanovych''' (Ukrainian: Корни́ло Микола́йович Устияно́вич; 22 September 1839, Volkyv, [[Pustomyty Raion]] — 22 July 1903, Dolgoye, [[Drohobych Raion]]) was a Ukrainian painter, writer and folklorist. His paintings are largely in the [[Academicism|Academic]] style.

== Biography ==
His father , was a priest, poet and member of the [[Diet of Galicia and Lodomeria|Regional Diet]]. He began his education in [[Buchach]], then completed it in [[Lviv]]. From 1858 to 1863, he attended the [[Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna]], where he studied under the Polish painter, [[Artur Grottger]]. While there, he was influenced by the works of [[Józef Bohdan Zaleski]] and his political views were altered from [[Pan-Slavism]] to Ukrainian patriotism.

He published his first poems in 1861. He became one of the first members of [[Prosvita]], a Ukrainian nationalist organization, in 1868. After 1872, he lived in [[Kiev]], where he began writing poems on folklore themes that were published in several journals devoted to the Ukrainian arts. He also wrote articles about the art of [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]]. From 1873 to 1874, he lived in [[Husiatyn Raion]], with the family of , painting portraits and landscapes.<ref name="ДМПЩ1">Igor Duda, et al., '' Устиянович Корнило Миколайович'', ''[[Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary]]''</ref> His first icon was for a church in [[Kolomyia]], which he worked on for two years. He was one of the first Ukrainian artists to portray [[Taras Shevchenko]].

From 1882 to 1883, he edited and illustrated a satirical magazine called ''The Mirror''. His political cartoons were praised by [[Ivan Franko]]. For a time, he worked as a scriptwriter and set designer for the [[Ukrainian Discourse Theatre]]. Over the course of his career, he created icons and murals for over fifty churches and painted approximately forty portraits. <ref name="ДМПЩ1"/>

He died in 1903, while painting an [[iconostasis]] in a small village, and was buried there.

A monument to him has been erected near his birthplace, with a sculpture by Evgeny Dzindra (1913-1983). Most of his works were preserved at the [[Lviv National Art Gallery]]. In 1991, a branch of the museum devoted to his work was opened near the monument.

== References ==


== External links ==

* [https://ift.tt/2UezAeI Detailed biography] @ ''Mykolayiv''
* [https://ift.tt/2BXTOm7 Biography and appreciation] @ the Lviv National Art Gallery




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[[Category:Ukrainian painters]]
[[Category:Ukrainian poets]]
[[Category:Ukrainian nationalists]]


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