Was
born in Vorozhba village, near Lebedyn, Ukraine, on January
12, 1873, the son of a physician's assistant. After his
graduation from the School of Technology in Kharkiv, he worked
for a short time as a designer in building firms and architect-designer's
offices.
1889-1892 Krychevsky studied architecture with professor
S.I.Zagoskin.
1897 Began exhibiting his works: landscapes.
1893-1902 He worked in the office of a well known Kharkiv
architect, A.Beketov, designing in various styles facades
of many representative buildings in Kharkiv: the District
Court House, the City Library, several bank buildings, a number
of apartment houses, offices, and private villas. in addition
to his work for Beketov, Krychevsky created a series of independent
designs.One of them, the building tor the Society of Mining
industriahists in Kharkiv, won first prize in 1899.
1903 At the big architectural contest for a design
for the Poltava Zemstvo (District Assembly), V. Krychevsky
carried of the first prize. Among other construction in modern
Ukrainian architectural style he is credited with the construction
of the National home in Lokhvytsia, the schools in the Chernigiv
region the buildings of D.Miloradovich, I.Schytkivsky and
others;
1911-1912 he made extensive study tours to Italy, Austria
and Germany.
1912-1915 Krychevsky was an instructor in a rug-weaving
and cloth-printing workshop organized by Barbara Khanenko
near Kiev. There he createda number of decorative designs,
quite original and sometimes daringly modern. These rugs and
block-printed fabrics, as well as embroideries, enjoyed great
success at industrial and handicraft exhibitions (St.Petersburg,
1913; Prague, 1923; Berlin, 1923, and others) and were acquired
by art dealers from abroad.
One
of the organizers and elected the first President of the Ukrainian
Academy of Arts on December 5th, 1917, but Krychevsky
declined the post and another person was elected. He has always
been considered the First President in practice.
In
1918 he was elected Director of the Ceramic Art Institute
in Myrhorod
1920s V. Krychevsky was professor at the Architectural
Institute and the Art Institute in Kiev, the latter renamed
so after the "re-organization" of original Academy
of Arts by the Bolshevik administration;
1925-1928 the artist worked in Odessa in the capacity
of chief designer of architectural sceneries in the most renowned
Ukrainian motion pictures.
In
1927 he was professor of architecture at the Art Institute
in Odessa
From
1928 to 1941 he lectured in the Architectural Department
of the Art Institute in Kyiv on Composition and Construction
of architectural forms and painting and drawing for architects.
In spring 1940 a great one-man exhibition of V. Krychevskys'
works was arranged which displayed 1,055 exhibits of his compositions
covering the period from 1892 to 1940. During World War II,
the artist left Kiev, lived in Lviv, then in Slovakia and
later in West Germany;
In
1940 he received the honorific title of Emeritus Artist
and Doctor in Art Sciences
From
1943 to 1944, he was one of the organizers and professor
of painting of the Academy of Art in Lviv.
In
1945 he was elected honorary member of the Ukrainian
Academy of Art and Sciences in exile.
1949 he immigrated to Venezuela where he passed away
in Caracas on November 15, 1952 at the age of 80.
NOTE: To read more about Vasyl Krychevsky and to see photographs of some of
his artistic works go to the following links:
www.artukraine.com/exhibitions/artists/krych_ex2.htm
www.artukraine.com/exhibitions/artists/krych_ex.htm
www.artukraine.com/exhibitions/artists/vhk_ex.htm
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