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Levchenko, Petro

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Levchenko, Petro [Левченко, Петро; Levčenko], b 11 July 1856 in Kharkiv, d 27 January 1917 in Kharkiv. Painter and pedagogue. He studied art in Kharkiv under Dmytro Bezperchy, at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts (1878–83, among others, under Volodymyr Orlovsky), and later in Paris and Rome. From 1886 he lectured at the Kharkiv Painting School. He was a member of the Society of South Russian Artists and a participant in almost all of the exhibitions of the Peredvizhniki (1886–1904), but following his visit to Paris in the 1890s, his works displayed strong influences of impressionism. Levchenko did some 800 landscapes, primarily of Ukraine (such as A Deserted Place, Night: A Cottage in Moryntsi, A Ukrainian Village, In the Kharkiv Region, A Street in Putyvl, and The Yard of Saint Sophia Cathedral), but also painted abroad (such as A Street in Paris and Seacoast: Naples). He also painted still lives and genre paintings and was perhaps the most accomplished master of interior art in Ukraine of his time.

Levchenko was not properly recognized for his achievements during his lifetime. Only in 1919 a large posthumous retrospective exhibition of 700 of his paintings was held in Kharkiv. Monographs about him were written by M. Pavlenko (1927), Yu. Diuzhenko (1958), and M. Bezkhutry (1984).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]


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