Executed Renaissance
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The generation of Ukrainian artists and writers of the 1920s–30s whose national cultural flowering was suppressed by Soviet terror, with many executed or driven to death during the Great Purge.
Artists of the Movement
Fedir Krychevskyi
1879–1947
Leading early-modernist painter; co-founder/rector of the Ukrainian State Academy of Arts; created the triptych 'Life' (Venice Biennale 1928); persecuted after WWII, died in poverty 1947.
Mykhailo Boichuk
1882–1937
Founder of Boichukism, a monumental school synthesising Byzantine, Quattrocento and Ukrainian folk art; co-founder/rector of the Ukrainian State Academy of Arts. Executed by the NKVD on 13 July 1937; nearly all his monumental works were destroyed.
Vasyl Sedliar
1899–1937
Close associate of Boichuk; painter, ceramicist and book artist best known for his complete cycle of illustrations to Shevchenko's 'Kobzar'; executed by the NKVD in 1937.
Works from this Movement
The Bride
Fedir Krychevskyi
A monumental depiction of a Ukrainian bride combining academic skill with national folk themes.
Beatrice
Fedir Krychevskyi
An idealized female figure inspired by Dante's Beatrice, from Krychevsky's early symbolist period.
The Milkmaid
Mykhailo Boichuk
Self-Portrait in a White Sheepskin Coat
Fedir Krychevskyi
Execution at Mezhyhiria
Vasyl Sedliar
A partly destroyed monumental painting; one of the few surviving works of Sedliar, executed in 1937.
Life (triptych)
Fedir Krychevskyi
In the Liknep School
Vasyl Sedliar
Illustration for Shevchenko's 'Kobzar'
Vasyl Sedliar
An illustration for the landmark 1931 'Kobzar' in the monumental Boychukist style.
Dovbush
Fedir Krychevskyi
A heroic portrayal of the Carpathian folk hero Oleksa Dovbush.