Volodymyr Ovsiichuk (; 28 July 1924 – 26 July 2016) was a Ukrainian art historian, painter and educator. He became a Doctor of Art History in 1990 and a professor in 2001. From 2000, he was a corresponding member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society from 1989, and a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine from 1972.Ovsiichuk Volodymyr Antonovych / O. M. Holubets // Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine [Online] / Eds. : I. М. Dziuba, A. I. Zhukovsky, M. H. Zhelezniak [et al.] ; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Shevchenko Scientific Society. – Kyiv : The NASU institute of Encyclopedic Research, 2022, upd. 2024.
Biography Volodymyr Ovsiichuk was born on 28 July 1924, in Malyi Sknyt, now , Shepetivka Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine.
He was a participant in World War II and graduated from University of Lviv in 1952.
From 1952 to 1979, he worked as the head of the Department of Western European Art at the Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery. From 1961 to 1963, he took part in the restoration of the Khan's Palace in Bakhchysarai, AR Crimea. In the 1960s-1980s, under the leadership of , he was active in scientific and search expeditions in Volyn.
In 1979, he began working at the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NANU) in Lviv, where he became head of the Department of Art History in 1991. Concurrently, from 1965, he was a lecturer and professor at the Lviv Academy of Arts.
He died on 26 July 2016, in Lviv.
Works His scholarly interests were in Ukrainian art of the 10th–20th centuries. He compiled the catalog "Lvivskyi portret XVI–XVIII st." (1967) and the albums "Lvivska kartynna halereia" (1977) and "" (2004).
He was the author of portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. In 2015, the Academician Volodymyr Ovsiichuk Center for Art History was opened at the National University of Ostroh Academy, to which the artist donated 76 of his own works.
Among his important works: "Arkhitekturni pamiatky Lvova" (1969); "Obrazotvorche mystetstvo Yuhoslavii: Narys istorii" (1983); "Ukrainske mystetstvo XІV — pershoi polovyny XVII st." (1985); "Ukrainske mystetstvo druhoi polovyny ХVІ — pershoi polovyny ХVІІ st.: Humanistychni ta vyzvolni idei" (1985); "Maistry ukrainskoho barokko: Zhovkivskyi khudozhnii oseredok" (1991); "Maliari perekhidnoi doby (Rozdumy nad tvorchistiu khudozhnykiv lvivskoho Renesansu Fedora Senkovycha ta Mykoly Petrakhnovycha)" // Zapysky NTSh: Pratsi Sektsii mystetstvoznavstva. Vol. 227 (1994); "M. Moroz. Filadelfiia" (1994); "F. Humeniuk" (1995); "Ukrainske maliarstvo X–XVIIІ st.: Problemy koloru: Albom" (1996); "Oleksandr Novakivskyi: Albom" (1998); "Rozdum nad kartynoiu Tarasa Shevchenka «Kateryna»" // Narodoznavchi zoshyty. 1999. Part 5 (29); "Opovidi pro ikonu" (2000, co-author); "Klasytsyzm i romantyzm v ukrainskomu mystetstvi" (2001); "Ukrainske mystetstvo: Navchalnyi posibnyk: In 3 parts. Part 2" (2004).
Among his important paintings: "Khudozhnyk D. Paruta" (1960), "Pid osin. Moie selo" (1962), "Konstruktyvnyi natiurmort" (1964), "Zhnyva na horodakh" (1967), "Avtoportret" (1968), "Chervoni maky. Olesko" (1971), "Krainia khata po dorozi do Briukhovych" (1972), "Doshch nad Oleskom" (1974), "Krainia khata v seli" (1975), "Selo pid skeleiu" (1981), "Sukhi kvity", "Zhorzhyny" (both 1993), "Bili piony" (2001), "Kvity u synii vazi" (2002).
Awards (1989); Shevchenko National Prize (1994); Ivan Franko Prize of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (2000); Gold Medal of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (2000); Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise 5th (2009)Decree of the President of Ukraine from 7 жовтня 2009 year № 810/2009 «Про відзначення державними нагородами України діячів образотворчого мистецтва» and 4th (2015)Decree of the President of Ukraine from 21 серпня 2015 year № 491/2015 «Про відзначення державними нагородами України з нагоди Дня незалежності України» class, (2011).Decree of the President of Ukraine from 19 серпня 2011 year № 822/2011 «Про нагородження відзнакою Президента України — ювілейною медаллю «20 років незалежності України»»
References
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