Sunday, March 3, 2019

Oleksa Novakivskyi

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[[File:Новаківський О.jpg|thumb|185px|Self-portrait (1911)]]
[[File:Novakivskij - Digging at the garden 1920.jpg|thumb|300px|Digging in the Garden]]
'''Oleksa Kharlampiyovych Novakivskyi''' (Ukrainian: Оле́кса Харла́мпійович Новакі́вський; 14 March 1872, Obodyvka, [[Trostianets Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast]] — 29 August 1935, [[Lviv]]) was a Ukrainian painter and art teacher; known largely as an [[Impressionist]].

== Biography ==
He was born to a forester who worked at the estate of an aristocratic Polish family. A local nobleman took note of his talent and provided the means for him to pursue an artistic education. From 1888 to 1892, he studied in [[Odessa]] with the watercolorist and decorative painter, Filip Klimenko (1862-c.1917). Further support enabled him to transfer to the [[Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts|Kraków Academy of Fine Arts]], where he worked with [[Jan Matejko]] (until his death) then [[Leon Wyczółkowski]], among others.<ref name="I">H.F. Kovpanenko: [https://ift.tt/2TrfxwA "Новаківський Олекса Харлампійович"] @ the Institute of Ukrainian History.</ref> He graduated in 1900.

For about ten years, he lived in the village of [[Mogiła, Lublin Voivodeship|Mogila]], now on the Polish-Ukrainian border. He shared a house with an elderly widow whose daughter he later married. His first exhibit was with the Society for the Development of Russian Art, in 1901, but he achieved little attention until his personal exhibition in Kraków in 1911.

He moved to [[Lviv]] in 1913, with the patronage of the Metropolitan Archbishop, [[Andrey Sheptytsky]]. Shortly after, he started his own art school. Most of the noted painters of early twentieth-century [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]] studied there, at least briefly.<ref name="I" />

His most successful exhibition came in 1921. From 1924 to 1925, he was Dean of Arts at the .

He is buried in [[Lychakiv Cemetery]]. In 1972, the was established in Lviv.<ref>* [https://ift.tt/2IM3RjS Ukrainian Art Library, 1983.]</ref>

== References ==


== External links ==

* [https://ift.tt/2TtdmbP "The Search for New Roads"] @ Izbornyk
* ''Oleksa Novakivskyi'', a monograph by Volodymyr Zalozetskyi. [https://ift.tt/2IM3SnW Full text online] @ the [[Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine]]
* Ukrainian Artists: Novakivskyi, [https://ift.tt/2TtdnMV Full text online] @ the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine
* [https://ift.tt/2IM3F48 Biography and paintings] @ ''UA'' (blog)




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[[Category:Ukrainian painters]]
[[Category:People from Trostianets Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast]]


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