Julian Butsmanyuk ( Ukrainian Yulian Butsmanyuk ; July 3, 1885, p. Smorzhov , Galicia , Austria-Hungary (now Radekhivsky district, Lviv region of Ukraine ) - December 30, 1967, Edmonton , Canada ) - Ukrainian monumental painter, teacher, professor.
| Julian Butsmanyuk | |
|---|---|
| ukr Yulian Butsmanyuk | |
 Self portrait. 1952 | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | with. Smorzhov , Galicia , Austria-Hungary (now Radekhovsky district, Lviv region of Ukraine ) |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Edmonton canada |
| Citizenship |  →  →  →  |
| Genre | monumental sacred painting |
| Study | Krakow Academy of Arts , Academy of Fine Arts (Prague) |
| Patrons | Greek Catholic metropolitan Andrei (Sheptytsky) |
Biography
Born in a family of rural teachers. In the childhood I attended art school. Then he worked, improving artistic skills, while the abbot of the temple in the village. Grooms in Berezhanshchina , in 1907, did not ask the young artist to paint his church. The superior was amazed with his paintings, and told about his talented young artist to a relative, the artist Modest Sosenko , a graduate of the Krakow School of Art . Sosenko took Butsmanyuk as an apprentice and began commissioning him to paint the churches: in Rykov , Slavske , and later Y. Butsmanyuk participated in the painting of the cathedral in Lviv .
In 1910, the Zholkovsky Basilians noticed the young artist and made an order to paint a small chapel at the church of the Nativity of Christ monastery. The 25-year-old artist enthusiastically completed his first order and created a real masterpiece.
The work performed by Butsmanyuk convinced everyone of his artistic talents, and two years later his teacher M. Sosenko sends the artist to the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow . The sponsor was Metropolitan Andrei (Sheptytsky) . Butsmanyuk graduated from the Krakow Academy (1908–1914), then he traveled around Italy (without acquaintance with the works of the Italian Renaissance, no self-respecting artist thought himself). However, the First World War began .
In 1914, Butsmanyuk joined the legion of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen , in which he spent the whole war, and later - in the Ukrainian Galician Army (until 1919), was wounded several times.
In 1920-1923 he was in internment camps in Czechoslovakia . In 1923 he entered the Prague Academy of Fine Arts (1923–1927), then returned to his homeland.
From 1927 he taught drawing in Lviv in the society “Ridna School”, was engaged in painting. In the mid 1930s painted a large church of the Nativity in Zholkva.
In 1939 he left for Krakow, where during the Second World War he worked as an editor of the Ukrainian publishing house. Then he moved to Vienna and Munich. In 1950, the Greek Catholic Bishop Neil Savarin invited him to Canada to paint the Ukrainian Cathedral of St. Josaphat in Edmonton. Butsmanyuk accepted the bishop's offer and moved to Canada with his family. There he continued his works of monumental sacred art, painted, founded an art studio, which he directed until his death in 1967 - at the age of 83 years.
Participant of various exhibitions of fine art.
The works of Butsmanyuk were kept in the Lviv Museum , created by A. Sheptytsky. But in 1952, along with thousands of other works by Ukrainian artists, in the course of the struggle against manifestations of “nationalism” and “separatism”, they were burned in the courtyard of the museum at the direction of the party authorities.