Karlo Zvirynskyi

Style: Abstract Art;

Place: Lviv

Born: 1923

Death: 1997

Biography:

Karlo Zvirynsky (1923–1997) was a Ukrainian artist. He was one of the leading western Ukrainian painters of the second half of the 20th century. He wrote about 40 icons for the Assumption Church in Lviv and created a remarkable figure of Ukrainian Abstract Art and Soviet Nonconformist Art. He studied at the short courses of the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts in 1947–1949. He graduated from the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts with a forced one-year break in 1949–1950 ‘for manifestations of bourgeois nationalism and the spread of nationalist ideas’. He secretly created modernist art and taught others. His first solo exhibition took place only two years before his death in 1995.