Krvavych, Dmytro

Krvavych, Dmytro [Крвавич, Дмитро; Krvavyč], b 28 September 1926 in Kniazhpil, Dobromyl county, Galicia, d 2 April 2005 in Lviv. Sculptor. After graduating from the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts (1953), he chaired the Department of Russian Art at the Lviv Art Gallery and taught at the Lviv Children’s Art School. In 1958 he published a monograph on his teacher, Ivan Severa. His sculptures include portraits of Mykola Lysenko (1954), Ivan Vyshensky (1964), and Stepan Tudor (1972); monuments to Ivan Franko (1964), to Markiian Shashkevych (1960) in Pidlysia, as well as some dedicated to the Soviet Army (1970) in Lviv; and majolica figures such as Kozak-Mamai (1959), Carpathian Legend (1959), Ksenia (1962), A Memory (1962), and The Sun Is Low (1963). Mykola Batih published a monograph on Krvavych in 1968 in Kyiv.

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