Leopold Levytskyy painting of the 1930-th as a part of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum of Lviv collection.

Abstract

Leopold Levytskyy painting of the 1930-th as a part of his painting heritage placed in the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum of Lviv collection was the main objective of this study. It was marked that he started his education in Krakiv academy of arts at the department of sculpture, starting the third year studied graphic technics, but finished it as a painter. The analyses of genre structure of the collection revealed that it consists of portraits, landscapes, abstractive and genre compositions. Portraits were painted during his staying in Chortkiv. Special attention that was paid to the remarkable self-portrait dated 1935 was caused by it declarative inside idea. In the process of study it was reveal not only preserved art pieces from the museum collection, but also objects that are known through reminiscences and archive documents. Analyzed landscape compositions exposed deep interest of the artist in creating generalized images of cities, towns or villages. Also it was made conclusion that some paintings have controversial dating, but it was stressed that there is not enough objective information for making changing in dating. The results of analyses of abstractive colorful compositions exposed artist’s great enthusiasm in plastic experiments, that was inspired with his interest in non-objective art. As in the case of portraits also it was studied examples of genre painting which are known only from archive photos and descriptions. Obtain results helped to make a comparison between artists graphic of the 1930-th and art pieces of the next periods and uncover several matters, scenes or narratives and compositional methods that could be treated as typical for creative heritage of the master. Analytical interpretation of combining such scenes as “wood-cutters”, “women with a pail”, “cow with a calf” in the same painting composition as “Working day” allowed to make a conclusion that this art piece is of a program importance in artist’s heritage.