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UDK 75.052.046.3:271.4-523.42-312.47(477.83-22)Кохавина

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

SAVED MASTERPIECES: FRESCOES OF THE CHURCH OF THE INTERCESSION OF THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD OF THE MONASTERY OF ST. GERARD FR. REDEMPTORISTS IN THE VILLAGE OF KOHAVYNA (HISTORICAL ASPECT AND ARTISTIC FEATURES)

HRYMALYUK Rostyslava

  • ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2694-5917
  • Senior Researcher,
  • The Institute of Ethnology
  • of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
  • Department of Art Studies,
  • 15, Svobody Avenue, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: е­mail: rosahrymal@gmail.com

Abstract. The problem under consideration is a continuation of the author’s series of articles «Unlost masterpieces», which was started back in 1995. Flipping through the pages of the development of Ukrainian art at the end of the 19th — the first third of the 20th century, in particular monumental art, which remains in the field of special interest of art historians due to the inexhaustibility of the topic, we once again come across the fact of the existence of unique masterpieces of monumental art, which have come down to us from the past often, unfortunately, sometimes only thanks to a happy fate.

This article is intended to bring to the scientific circulation information about the wall paintings of the Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God in the village of Kohavyno, which until now did not fall into the field of research of Ukrainian art critics, to highlight their artistic value and peculiarities of figurative and plastic expression, to reveal the influence of the aesthetics of European Art Nouveau art and art-deco on the work of Julian Krupsky as a monumentalist artist.

The main part: Among the galaxy of artists who try their hand at returning to national sources, the teacher of the Lviv Art and Industrial School Yulian Krupsky. As an artist-monumentalist, Yu. Krupsky started his independent artistic practice only in 1904, performing and restoring paintings for the churches of the region.

The polychromes of Y. Krupskyi’s brush became the decoration of many churches also in Poland. Unfortunately, a very small amount has survived to the present time. Paintings in the church of the Franciscans in Lviv in 1930 were preceded by another fairly large and time-consuming work on figurative and ornamental paintings in the Church of the Intercession of the Virgin of the Monastery of St. Gerard of the Redemptorists in the village of Kohavyno, to whom Yu. Krupsky devoted himself completely in 1928—29. Comparing the wall paintings in these two temples, the work on which continued over time literally one after the other, we observe the development of the artist’s iconographic and artistic style, which clearly absorbed the features of the best examples of European modernism.

The object of the study is the polychromy of the Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin of the Monastery of St. Gerard of the Redemptorists of the village of Kohavyno by the brush of Julian Krupsky.

Keywords: Ukrainian monumental art, wall paintings of the Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God, village of Kohavyno, Yulian Krupskyi, monumental artist.

Received 22.11.2024

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