Sviatoslav Hordynskyi
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Sviatoslav Hordynskyi | |
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| Святослав Ярославович Гординський | |
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| Born | 30 December 1906 |
| Died | 20 May 1993 (aged 86) Verona, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Other names | Yurii Burevii, Ivan Palytsia, S. H., s. h., Hor., S. Hord.[1] |
| Alma mater | Oleksa Novakivskyi Art School, Berlin Academy of Arts, Académie Fernand Léger |
| Occupations | Poet, translator, literary critic, artist, art historian |
Sviatoslav Hordynskyi Sas coat of arms[2] (Ukrainian: Святослав Ярославович Гординський; 30 December 1906 – 20 May 1993) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, artist, and art historian. In 1952 he became a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Son of Yaroslav, brother of Bohdan-Zynovii, Volodymyr-Yevhen Hordynskyi, Dariia Hordynska-Karanovych, wife of Mariia Hordynska-Chapelska.[1]
Sviatoslav Hordynskyi was born on 30 December 1906 in Kolomyia, now Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of Ukraine.[1]
As a child, due to hearing loss, Hordynskyi graduated from the Ukrainian Academic Gymnasium of Lviv in 1924 as an external student. Later he graduated from the Oleksa Novakivskyi Art School,[3] and in 1928 from the Berlin Academy of Arts, and from 1929 he studied at the Académie Fernand Léger in Paris.[1][4]
From 1931, he lived in Lviv, where he co-founded the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists; he also edited the magazine "Mystetstvo" and co-edited the literary and artistic biweekly "Nazustrich".[1][4]
In 1939, some time before the Red Army occupied Lviv, Hordynskyi moved to Kraków, where he worked as a literary and artistic editor of the Ukrainian Publishing House. Later, after the end of World War II, he was in the camps for displaced persons in Munich, and in 1949 he emigrated to Verona, New Jersey, U.S. He co-founded the Ukrainian Artist's Association in USA.[1][4]
He died on 18 May 1993 in Verona, U.S. He is buried at the St. Andrew's Ukrainian Cemetery in Bound Brook, New Jersey, U.S.[1][4]
