1. Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky was a Ukrainian painter, architect, art scholar, graphic artist, film art consultant, pedagogue and master of applied art and decorative art.
12 Facts About Vasyl Krychevsky
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Vasyl Krychevsky is the designer of the 1918 Ukrainian coat of arms, state seals, banknotes.
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Vasyl Krychevsky was the brother of Ukrainian painter Fedir Krychevsky.
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Vasyl Krychevsky was born in the village of Vorozhba, near Lebedyn, to a family of eight children where he was the eldest.
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Vasyl Krychevsky's father Hryhoriy Yakymovych Krychevsky was a county state doctor of Jewish descent who converted to Orthodox Christianity and married a Ukrainian woman, Praskovia Hryhorivna.
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Vasyl Krychevsky then taught at the Odesa Art School and served in the architectural department of the Kiev State Art Institute until 1941.
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Vasyl Krychevsky moved to Lviv in 1943 where he was appointed a rector of a new Ukrainian art school, which eventually became the Lviv National Academy of Arts.
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Vasyl Krychevsky died in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela on November 15,1952.
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Vasyl Krychevsky first gained public recognition in 1903 when he won the architectural competition to build the Poltava Zemstvo Building.
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Vasyl Krychevsky was a collector and student of Ukrainian folk art, and promoted such handicrafts among common people.
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From 1907 to 1910, Vasyl Krychevsky designed sets and costumes for over 15 plays and operas including Mykhailo Starytsky's Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Bedrich Smetana's The Bartered Bride.
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On several projects Vasyl Krychevsky worked along with another Ukrainian architect Petro Kostyrko who in 1960 did reconstruction of the former Poltava Governorate Administration building.