Boichuk, Tymofii [Bojčuk, Tymofij], b 27 September 1896 in Romanivka, Ternopil county, Galicia, d 1922 in Kyiv. Monumentalist painter and graphic and poster artist, brother of Mykhailo Boichuk. He painted frescoes in the Lutsk Barracks in Kyiv (1919) and decorated the Kyiv Theater of Opera and Ballet for the All-Ukrainian Congress of Rural District Executive Committees (1919). Among his paintings are the following, all of which were executed in 1919–20: Seed Dealers (1916), Planting Potatoes, In the Pasture, In the Cobbler's Shop, Feeding Hogs, and By the Apple Tree (1920).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]


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