Ivan Mytrofanovych Severyn

Ivan Mytrofanovych Severyn studied at Myrhorod College of Art and Industry, Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and Academy of Fine Arts of Rome. Training under Opanas Slastion is recorded. Kostiantyn Mykolaiovych Hrypych is recorded as having studied under Ivan Mytrofanovych Severyn. The recorded working language is Ukrainian. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait.

• Name — Ivan Severyn • Born — 23 September 1881 • Birthplace — Ostapivka (now Myrhorod Raion, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine) • Died — 20 September 1964 • Place of death — Kyiv • Alma Mater — Kraków Academy of Arts • Occupation — Painter Ivan Severyn (. 23 September 1881 – 20 September 1964) was a Ukrainian painter, student of Opanas Slastion. Member of the Association of Revolutionary Art of Ukraine, the Union of Artists of Ukraine (1956).

Ivan Severyn was born on 23 September 1881 in Ostapivka, Myrhorod district, Poltava Governorate (now Komyshnia Hromada, Myrhorod Raion, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine). Until 1905, he studied at the Myrhorod art professional college (teacher – Opanas Slastion) and the Kharkiv Drawing School. From 1907, he graduated from the Kraków Academy of Arts (teachers: Jan Stanisławski and Stanisław Wyspiański). Until 1913, thanks to a scholarship from Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi, the artist improved his skills in the art studios of Munich, Rome, and Paris, and also studied at the Paris Academy of Arts. In 1913, during a geographical and geological expedition, he painted the Tian Shan and Tibet. From 1925 to 1927, he taught at an art college, and from 1927 to 1933 at the Kharkiv Art Institute. In the mid-1930s, he was arrested and exiled to the Gulag, and after Stalin's death he was rehabilitated. He died on 20 February 1964 in Kyiv.

In Ukrainian art, he belonged to the impressionist masters of the early 20th century (among them Ivan Trush, Oleksa Novakivskyi, Mykola Burachek). From 1927, he presented his works at art exhibitions. His personal vernissages took place in 1909 in Lviv (with the assistance of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi) and in 1911 in Kyiv. Some of his works are kept in the collections of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum of Lviv, the Museum of Arts of Prykarpattia, and the Ivano-Frankivsk Local Museum. A significant part of the artist's works was lost during the World War II. Among the important works: • Painting – "Zakopane" (1907), "Vechory v Alpakh" (1908–1909), "Okolitsi Rymu" (1910), "Sutinky", "Na Ukraini", "Step Ukrainskyi", "Zymovyi vechir u Karpatakh", "Kubanskyi kozak"; • Cycles "Hutsulshchyna" (1905–1911), "Dniprovska HES" (1930–1932); • Portraits of Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesia Ukrainka, and others.