Kozyk, Mykhailo

Kozyk, Mykhailo [Козик, Михайло], b 2 October 1879 in Semenivka, Novozybkiv county, Chernihiv gubernia, d 2 January 1947 in Lviv. Realist painter. A graduate of the Kyiv Art School (1909), where he studied under Hryhorii Diadchenko, and of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (1913), Kozyk taught at the Kyiv Art School (1915–20), the Kyiv Art and Industrial School (1921–25), the Kyiv State Art Institute (1925–32), and the Kharkiv Art Institute (1932–41). He was an active member of the Association of Artists of Red Ukraine. His works include portraits of Mykola Biliashivsky, Vasyl H. Krychevsky, Ivan M. Steshenko, Mariia Hrinchenko, and Volodymyr Durdukivsky with children; landscapes of orchards, Kyiv parks, and industrial areas; and children’s book and textbook illustrations.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]