Pavlos, Antin

Pavlos, Antin [Павлось, Антін; Pavlos'], b 8 June 1905 in Hostynne, Hrubeshiv county, Lublin gubernia, d 4 September 1954 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. Sculptor. A graduate of the Lviv Applied Arts School (1935) (he also studied at the Novakivsky Art School), Pavlus began exhibiting his work in 1933 at shows organized by the Ukrainian Society of Friends of Art. In the 1930s he created small terra-cotta busts, nudes, and animal figures (mostly horses) and worked on monuments; in that genre he prepared several projects (Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, King Danylo Romanovych, Prince Roman Mstyslavych, and Hetman Ivan Mazepa) but completed only the gravestone of Viktor Matiuk. His small nudes are among his better works. A postwar refugee and displaced person in Germany, in 1949 he emigrated to the United States of America. In Minneapolis he created sculptures now found in Roman Catholic churches in the United States and a bas-relief of Taras Shevchenko. Pavlos also painted impressionist landscapes.

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