Ivan Severyn
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Ivan Severyn | |
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| Іван Митрофанович Северин | |
| Born | 23 September 1881 |
| Died | 20 September 1964 (aged 82) |
| Alma mater | Kraków Academy of Arts |
| Occupation | Painter |
Ivan Severyn (Ukrainian: Іван Митрофанович Северин; 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).[1]
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 School of Art and Industry (teacher – Opanas Slastion) and the Kharkiv School of Drawing and Painting. 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.[2][3][4][5]
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.
