Petro Kholodnyi
Petro Ivanovych Kholodnyi (18 December 1875 – 7 June 1930) was a Ukrainian painter and politician who served as Minister of Public Education from 1918 to 1920 in the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic. He was also a member of the Central Rada, Minister of Public Education of the Ukrainian People's Republic, painter, chemist. He was also an impressionist painter with a tendency to lyricism and a neo-Byzantine painter, a monumentalist, graphic artist, designer of applied art, and teacher.
Also recorded as Petro Ivanovych Kholodnyi · Petro Kholodny · Petro Kholodny (the elder)
Petro Kholodnyi
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- Name
- Petro Kholodnyi
- Born
- 18 December 1875
- Birthplace
- Pereiaslav, Russian Empire
- Died
- 7 June 1930
- Place of death
- Warsaw, Poland
- Nationality
- Russian Empire · Ukrainian People's Republic
- Occupation
- painter
- Education
- Kyiv Drawing School · Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Languages
- Russian · Ukrainian
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Petro Ivanovych Kholodnyi (18 December 1875 – 7 June 1930) was a Ukrainian painter and politician who served as Minister of Public Education from 1918 to 1920 in the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic. He was also a member of the Central Rada, Minister of Public Education of the Ukrainian People's Republic, painter, chemist. He was also an impressionist painter with a tendency to lyricism and a neo-Byzantine painter, a monumentalist, graphic artist, designer of applied art, and teacher.
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Biography
Biography
He is the father of the painter Petro Cholodny. During the Ukrainian Revolution (1917–1921), he worked at the Secretariat of Public Education of the Ukrainian Central Rada and the Ministry of Education. He headed the Ministry of Education of the UPR Directorate from 26 December 1918 to 2 February 1919 and from 26 May to the end of 1920.
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Key facts
• Name — Petro Kholodnyi • Office — Minister of Public Education of Ukraine • Term Start — 26 May 1919 • Term End — 1920 • Prime Minister — * Borys Martos • Isaak Mazepa • Viacheslav Prokopovych • Predecessor — Antin Krushelnytskyi • Successor — Position abolished (Hryhoriy Hrynko as People's Commissar for Education) • Term Start1 — 26 December 1918 • Term End1 — 2 February 1919 • Prime Minister1 — Volodymyr Chekhivskyi • Predecessor1 — Volodymyr Naumenko • Successor1 — Ivan Ohienko • Born — 18 December 1875 • Birthplace — Pereiaslav, Russian Empire • Died — 7 June 1930 • Place of death — Warsaw, Poland • Party — Ukrainian Party of Socialist-Federalists • Children — 1 (Petro)
Works
Works
• Icons and stained-glass windows in the Dormition Church and the iconostasis and polychromy of the chapel of St. Josaphat of the UGCC Theological Seminary and Theological Academy in Lviv (now the academic building of the Geography Faculty of Ivan Franko National University, Doroshenko Street). • A number of icons in the churches of the villages: Radelychi, Kholoiiv (now Vuzlove, Radekhiv Raion), Borshchovychi, Zubrets, Vyzhniany. • Stained-glass windows of the Church of the Assumption, Boryslav in Mraznytsia (now a section of Boryslav), created under the supervision of Bohdan Lepkyi). • Petro Kholodnyi also used his knowledge of ancient painting techniques to create polychrome paintings on the facade of Saint Nicholas Church (1924, 28 Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Street), which is a model of Byzantine architecture of the thirteenth century in Lviv, as well as to restore the paintings on the facade of St. Onufriy Church of the Basilian Monastery in Lviv (36/38 Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Street).
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• Petro Kholodnyi Lane in Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast. • Petro Kholodnyi streets in Lviv and Ochakiv.
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Life and career
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1875
Petro Kholodnyi born at Pereiaslav.
1930
Petro Kholodnyi died at Warsaw.
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Pereiaslav.
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Warsaw.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Petro Ivanovych Kholodnyi, Petro Kholodny and Petro Kholodny (the elder). His recorded languages were Russian and Ukrainian. One child is recorded: Petro Kholodnyi (the younger). Recorded as having studied at Kyiv Drawing School and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Connected to 1 other published record in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.
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