Roman Turyn
Roman Turyn was a Ukrainian painter, portraitist, photo artist, director, and public figure.
Biography
In 1906, he moved to the city of Ternopil. In 1921, he graduated from the classical gymnasium there.He studied at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts and in Paris.
In 1939, he worked in Ternopil, then in the city of Lviv: a research fellow at the Andrey Sheptytsky [National Museum of Lviv|Museum of Ukrainian Art], and subsequently, the head of the regional organization of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR.
He was a co-founder and for 25 years — the director of a children's art school. Roman Turyn was the first to research, collect, and popularize the works of Nikifor Drovnyak from Krynica.
He was one of the first photo artists in Galicia, engaged in photo advertising and photomontage. He studied the art of photography in Paris.
He died in Lviv and was buried in the family tomb in Lychakiv Cemetery.
Creativity
Portraits:- ,
- F. Kolessa,
- V. Stefanyk,
- V. Shchurat, and others.
He participated in exhibitions in Kraków, Lviv, Paris, Kharkiv. In 1982 and 2018 — solo exhibitions. Some works are preserved in the collections of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv and in private collections in Ukraine and Poland.
In December 2018, the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum of Lviv presented the album "Roman Turyn. Pid yevropeiskym kapeliukhom", authored by Halyna Hronska and Roman Yatsiv.