Liubomyr Medvid
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Liubomyr Medvid | |
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Любомир Медвідь | |
| Born | 10 July 1941 Variazh, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts |
| Occupation(s) | Painter, graphic artist and teacher |
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Liubomyr Myroslavovych Medvid (Ukrainian: Любомир Мирославович Медвідь; born 10 July 1941) is a Ukrainian painter. In 1970, he became a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. In 2004, he was elected an academician of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine.[1][2]
He was born on 10 July 1941, in Variazh-misto, now the Variazh Sheptytskyi Raion of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.[1][2]
In 1965, he graduated from the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, where he studied with Karlo Zvirynskyi, Vitold Manastyrskyi, and Roman Selskyi. The following year, in 1966, he began working at his Alma mater, where in 1992 he became the head of the Department of Monumental and Decorative Painting, and from 2001 to the present day he has been a professor. In 1970–1988, he also worked at the Lviv Art and Production Plant.[1][2]