Soviet artist of arts and crafts, ceramist. Member of the USSR from 1980. Born July 22, 1930 in the village. Zushitsy, Gorodetsky district of the Lviv region. He graduated from the Lviv Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts in 1963. Teachers: T. Porozhnyak, I. Severa, V. Cherkasov. Since then, he worked as a teacher at the Kosovo School of Applied Arts. From 1967 – 2003 – in the creative workshop of the LKSF. Member of regional, republican and all-union art exhibitions since 1970. Personal – in Lviv (1978, 1985, 1993). The best works are sustained in the Ukrainian folk traditions, they are marked by laconism in the figurative plasticity of the language, the assemblage of monumental ones. constructions and folklore-historical themes. Some works are kept in the Lviv Art Gallery, the National Museum in Lviv. The main works: Keram. plastic – “Perebendya” (1969), “The Duma of the Three Brothers”, “Krivonos Maxim” (both – 1971), “Cossack Mamay” (1973), “Na Ivan Kupala” (1986); sculpture “Tenderness” (1973); a lantern “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” (1975); keram. compositions – “Family” (1975), “Verkhovyna” (1987); kumantsi – “Girl”, “Fighters”, “Lions”; candlesticks – “deer-trinity”, “Cossack tower” (all – 1979), “Tarasove of inspiration” (1987); decor. (1980), Three Hutsulkas, Gornist, The Collision near the Golden Gate (all – 1982), The Family Dinner Circle at Home (1983) ), “Native land is a fairy tale” (1986); panels – “Garbari” (1984), “Three cuckoo with a bow” (1988), “The Cossack Duma”, “Cossack Kosh”, “Hope. Vera. Love “(all – 1989); painting “The Cossack Chase” (1976), “Bouquet in Krynke” (1980), “Boats”, “Snov-river” (both 1983), “The Eternal Cossack” (1986), “The Smell of Bread and Jasmine”, ” Before Easter “(both – 1992),” Ukraine has not died yet “(1996). He passed away on December 16, 2007 in Lviv.
Photo: Decorative plate “Three Guzulka” 1982 year
Photo: Ceramic composition “Verkhovyna” 1987 year chamotte, enamel
Photo: Decorative plate “Family. Supper near the hut” 1983 year, ceramic mass, enamels