Dioniziy Sholdra

Dioniziy Sholdra was a Ukrainian painter, architect, and restorer.

Biography

He was born on 16 October 1925 in Ternopil. The house where the artist spent his childhood has been preserved to this day at 8 Lystopadova Street.
He studied at the Polish-language Second Ternopil Gymnasium. In March 1944, he left for the West. He studied painting, art history, and restoration theory at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
In 1952, he became a member of the Ukrainian Artist's Association in USA. He studied painting and practical restoration at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 1958 to 1965, he was a professor at Ainberg and Valizer.
In 1975, Sholdra opened a restoration workshop in New York City. Here he restored works of art, including pastels by Pablo Picasso and paintings by Salvador Dalí, whom he met on several occasions. In 1982, the workshop and his creative work were destroyed by fire. Two works were saved: a portrait of his daughter "Liuba" and a still life by French painter B. Nouville, which was later restored by Sholdra but disappeared in Kyiv in 1994 under unexplained circumstances.
He returned to his homeland during the time of Independent Ukraine.
From 1993 to 1995, he worked as the head of the restoration workshop at the Ternopil Regional Art Museum.
He died on 29 September 1995 in Ternopil. He was buried in the.

Solo exhibitions:

The works currently stored at the Ternopil Regional Art Museum were donated by the author in 1994:

In 1998, a memorial plaque was installed on the house at No. 8 on Lystopadova Street, on the corner of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi Street, where the artist spent his childhood.
The memory of Dioniziy Sholdra is immortalized in the Memorial Hall, which was opened at the Ternopil Regional Art Museum in 1998.