Vasyl Diadyniuk
Vasyl Diadyniuk was a Ukrainian painter, monumentalist and graphic artist. He was married to.
Biography
Vasyl Diadyniuk was born on 1 January 1900 in, now Vinnytsia Oblast.He participated in the battles for Ukrainian independence as a member of the Ukrainian People's Army. Later, he was taken to the internment camp for Ukrainian soldiers in Kalisz, Poland. In 1924 he was released. From then on, he lived in Lviv, where he studied at the Oleksa Novakivskyi Art School until 1928, as well as with Petro Kholodnyi.
During 1927-1930, on behalf of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi, he made studio trips to Vilno, Rome, Florence, and Venice.
Until 1929, at the expense of Andrei Sheptytskyi, he studied in France, and later studied at the Paris National High School of Arts and the Académie Julian. His works were exhibited at the Grand Palais.
In 1930–1933, he headed the schools of religious art that operated at the monastery of the Studite Fathers in Lviv.
He died on 21 January 1944 in Vienna.
Works
He painted churches, created book and industrial graphics, and worked in the collage technique. In his works, he applied the Ukrainian-Byzantine style and used constructivism in his graphics.In 1926, he began to participate in exhibitions held in Lviv, Krakow, Vienna, Paris, Prague, Philadelphia, and New York. In the same year, he held a solo exhibition in Kolomyia.
Among his main works:
- portrait series "Rulers of Ukraine";
- "Nesennia khresta", "Rozpiattia", "Natiurmort iz ryboiu", "Myronosytsi" ;
- portraits – "Lehin z Kryvorivni", "A. Hankivskyi", "O. Hankivska" ;
Awards
- 1938 – 2nd prize for the best painting at the competition in the museum of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.