Obal, Petro

Obal, Petro [Обаль, Петро; Obal'], b 19 April 1900 in Obodivka, Zbarazh county, Galicia, d 27 May 1987 in Stryi, Lviv oblast. Painter and graphic artist. A graduate of the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts (1926), he taught painting in secondary schools in Pomerania (until 1939), the Lemko region (1939–42), and Stryi (1942–56). He exhibited his work in Lviv at shows of the Circle of Contributors to Ukrainian Art (1923), the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists (from 1934), and the Labor Association of Ukrainian Pictorial Artists (1942). In 1932–3 he took part in graphic art exhibitions in Berlin, Prague, and Chicago. Solo exhibitions of his works were held in Bromberg (1935), Sianik (1940), and Lviv (1966). Most of his paintings are impressionist landscapes; eg, Golden Podilia (1931), Sunset, and Hutsul Fields (1930s). He also did woodcuts and a woodcut album of Ukrainian writers (1930).

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