Lipetsky, Yevsevii [Ліпецький, Євсевій; Lipec'kyj, Jevsevij], b 5 June 1899 in Verbivtsi, near Zastavna, Bukovyna, d 18 June 1970 in Bayreuth, West Germany. Realist painter. He studied at the Munich Academy of Arts (1910–15) and the Vienna Academy of Arts. From 1918 he lived in Chernivtsi, where he taught art at the Ukrainian Gymnasium in Chernivtsi, ran an art school, and painted theatrical scenery for Ukrainian stage productions. From 1941 he lived in Germany. Lipetsky painted many portraits of foreign dignitaries (eg, members of the Austrian royal family) and Bukovynian cultural, church, and political leaders (eg, Metropolitan N. Kotliarchuk, Olha Kobylianska, Ivan Nedilsky), landscapes, and genre scenes. He also worked on restoration of old art, among them the iconostasis in the church of Khreshchatyk, near Zastavna, and paintings in the Krekhiv Monastery, and he designed book covers and diplomas.

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