Rozvadovsky, Viacheslav

Rozvadovsky, Viacheslav [Розвадовський, В’ячеслав; Rozvadovs'kyj, Vjačeslav], b 24 September 1875 in Odesa, d 18 January 1943 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Painter and educator. After studying at the Odesa Art School (1890–4) and under Arkhyp Kuindzhi at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts (1894–1900) he worked in Ukraine, where he created landscapes and genre paintings, such as Above the Dnipro (1900), Taras Shevchenko’s Grave in Kaniv (1903), Hutsul Girl (1904), and A Mill (1905), and organized the first eight traveling folk art exhibitions in Ukraine (1904–8). Their catalogue (Opys kartyn narodnoho mystetstva [Description of Folk Art Paintings) was printed in Ukrainian. In 1905 he founded an art school and residence for peasant children in Kamianets-Podilskyi. The Academy of Arts sent him in 1912 to Central Asia, where he painted, taught art, and studied the local folk art.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]