12 Facts About Liuboslav Hutsaliuk

Liuboslav Hutsaliuk was a Ukrainian-American painter, graphic artist, cartoonist and caricaturist.

Liuboslav Hutsaliuk was born in Lviv, Poland, on April 2,1923.

Liuboslav Hutsaliuk joined the Galicia Division and fought in World War II; wounded in action, he was moved to various displaced persons camps after the war had finished.

In 1946, Liuboslav Hutsaliuk moved to Munich, where he began his artistic training under Kozak in Berchtesgaden.

Liuboslav Hutsaliuk studied under Kozak until 1949 when he emigrated to the United States with Kozak and settled in New York City where he was associated with Kozak for many years.

Liuboslav Hutsaliuk married Renata Kozicky in 1951, and they had a son, Yarema.

Liuboslav Hutsaliuk enrolled at the Cooper Union School of Art, graduating in 1954 and pursued further studies at the Campanella Academy in Rome, which gave him the silver medal in 1970.

From 1955, Liuboslav Hutsaliuk began splitting his time between New York, and his tranquil and airy studio in Paris at Rue de Vaugirard 103.

Liuboslav Hutsaliuk published art reviews in the daily newspaper Svoboda and the artistic journal Suchasnist.

Liuboslav Hutsaliuk was described as a "tall and powerfully built man".

Liuboslav Hutsaliuk was a member of The New York Group, Audubon Artists, Societe des Artistes Independants, and the Ukrainian Association in the United States.

Liuboslav Hutsaliuk died on 16 December 2003, and he was buried at St Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery in South Bound Brook, New Jersey on 23 December in a funeral attended by many notable Ukrainians living in the states and of the Halychyna Division.