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1879 - 1947

Fedor Krychevsky

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Fedor Grigorevich Krychevsky was an outstanding Ukrainian painter, teacher and an active public figure, the first rector of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts; he was a professor at the Kiev Art Institute for many years, was awarded the title “Honored Artist of Ukraine” (1940).

He was born into a family of a baptized Jew, a Zemstvo paramedic. He was one of eight children and grew up in the Ukrainian small village of Malaya Vorozhba (Kharkiv region) on the Psel River. The talent of Fedor, just like the talent of his elder brother Vasily (the future outstanding architect and artist), manifested itself early – he painted with coal, embroidered his own compositions, molded figures of clay. In the 1890s, the talented guy was noticed by Count V. Kapnist, in the estate of whom Fedor got acquainted with painting, could read books from a rich library, began to copy paintings from albums and original works of art.

An example of Ukrainian Art Nouveau was Krychevsky’s monumental triptych “Life” (1925-1927), exhibited in Europe and the United States. Many prominent Ukrainian artists (the Kiev school) consider themselves students of Professor Krychevsky. The main works of the artist are in the permanent exposition of the National Art Museum of Ukraine.

Key ideas:

– One of the first paintings of F. Krychevsky, with which he participated in an academic competition, demonstrated the maturity of his talent. In the canvas “The Bride”, the plot is solved without any routine. The composition has a frieze construction with its measured and solemn rhythm. The painting is tough, complete and vivid; the color is restrained. All these features will always be characteristic of the works of the master – they make his works epic and monumental.

– The national color, manifested both in the choice of themes and in the decorative details of paintings, is a distinctive feature of Krychevsky’s entire work. No wonder his creative report on the trip – the painting “Wedding Rite in Ukraine” – got negative reviews from Russian critics, who announced that the artist “showed weakness: he loved everything native”. That is why Krychevsky was denied further financing.

– As a portrait painter, the artist often uses decorative bases that emphasize the poetic or symbolic meaning of the created real portraits – this is evident in the portrait of his wife, depicted on a gold background.

– The triptych “Life”, the main work of the master, is recognized as a vivid example of Art Nouveau in the history of Ukrainian art. It contains the synthesis of the elements of art nouveau and Ukrainian religious painting (local colors, flatness, “empty” background) that are combined most harmoniously. He uses the same method in the historical genre.

F. Krychevsky mostly remained true to the realistic manner, seeing the main advantage of the artist not in the change of the artistic orientation, but in the improvement of pictorial mastery. He is characterized by a broad and expressive manner of painting, the monumentalization of a form and a special emotional component: pride of “the native”.

Fedor Krychevsky

On Artist

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Impressionism

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Abram Manevich

Vasily G. Krichevsky

artists

Valentin Serov

Gustav Klimt

Ferdinand Hodler

Abram Efimovich Arkhipov

Franz Alekseevich Roubaud

By Artist

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Modern

friends

Abram Manevich

artists

Vsevolod Maksimovich

Tatyana Nilovna Yablonskaya

Vladimir Kostetskiy

Melikhov George Stepanovich

Sergey Grigoryev

Peter Slyota

Alexander Alexandrovich Filbert

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Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev.

1934

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Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev.

1929

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Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev.

1925 - 1927

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Материалы: масло, холст. Местонахождение: собственность семьи художника.

1930

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Mediums: oil, cardboard. Location: The National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev.

1911

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Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU), Kiev.

1910