Oleksa Novakivsky
Oleksa Kharlampiyovych Novakivskyi (Ukrainian: Оле́кса Харла́мпійович Новакі́вський; 14 March 1872, Obodivka, Trostianets Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast — 29 August 1935, Lviv) whose last name is also written as Novakivs´kyi was a Ukrainian Impressionist painter and art teacher.
Also recorded as Oleksander Novakivs'ky · Oleksander Novakivsky · Oleksa Novakivs'ky · Olexa Novakivsky
Oleksa Novakivsky

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- Born
- 1872 · Nova Obodivka.
- Died
- 1935 · Lviv.
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- painting
- Movements
- Impressionism
- Education
- Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow
- Languages
- Ukrainian
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Oleksa Kharlampiyovych Novakivskyi (Ukrainian: Оле́кса Харла́мпійович Новакі́вський; 14 March 1872, Obodivka, Trostianets Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast — 29 August 1935, Lviv) whose last name is also written as Novakivs´kyi was a Ukrainian Impressionist painter and art teacher.
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Oleksa Novakivsky (1872–1935) was an art educator, painter and visual artist. Born in Nova Obodivka, the art educator died in Lviv.
Oleksa Novakivsky studied at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. The art educator was active in painting and visual art activity. Oleksa Novakivsky was associated with Impressionism.
Languages used include Ukrainian. Works by the art educator are held at Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery, Museum of Art in Łódź and National Museum in Warsaw.
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Biography
Oleksa Novakivsky studied at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. The recorded working language is Ukrainian. The field of work recorded is painting. Work by Oleksa Novakivsky is recorded in the collections of National Museum in Warsaw, Museum of Art in Łódź and Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery.
Oleksa Novakivskyi was born to a forester who worked at the estate of an aristocratic Polish family. A local nobleman took note of his talent and provided the means for him to pursue an artistic education. From 1888 to 1892, Novakivskyi studied in Odessa with the watercolorist and decorative painter, Filip Klimenko. Further support enabled him to transfer to the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, where he worked, among others, with Jan Matejko and Leon Wyczółkowski. He graduated in 1900. For about ten years, Novakivskyi lived in the village of Mogiła, now part of Nowa Huta near Kraków. He shared a house with an elderly widow whose daughter he later married. Novakivskyi's first exhibit was with the Society for the Development of Ruthenian Art, in 1901, but he achieved little attention until his personal exhibition in Kraków in 1911. In 1913 the painter moved to Lviv, where he received patronage of the Metropolitan Archbishop, Andrey Sheptytsky. Shortly after, he started his own art school. Most of the noted painters of early twentieth-century Galicia studied there, at least briefly. Novakivskyi's most successful exhibition came in 1921. From 1924 to 1925, he was Dean of Arts at the Secret Ukrainian University. Oleksa Novakivkskyi died in 1935 and is buried in Lychakiv Cemetery.
Personal life
Personal life
On 10 August 1914, soon after the start of the First World War, Novakivskyi married his long-term partner and muse Anna-Maria Palmowska, a native of Mogiła near Kraków, who was a model for many of his paintings. The couple was wed in Lviv, with the ceremony being performed by metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. The harmonious relationship between Novakivskyi and Palmowska is testified by numerous letters from the painter's archive; with time, Anna-Maria, whose native language was Polish, started corresponding with her man in Ukrainian. The couple had two sons. Palmowska's premature death in April 1925 was a heavy blow for the family; her depictions consinued to be present in Novakivskyi's works during the following years.
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In 1940 20 paitings by Novakivskyi stored in the funds of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum of Lviv were taken to Moscow, where they became part of an exhibition dedicated to first anniversary of the Soviet annexation of Western Ukraine. Those works have never been returned to Lviv and their fate remains unknown. In 1972, the Oleksa Novakivskyi Memorial Art Museum was established in Lviv.
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