In 1918-1919, Krychevsky held the post of the director of Mirhorodskiy Ceramic College.
During the period from 1927 to 1928, Vasyl worked as a teacher at Grekov Odessa Art school.
Vasyl was one of the founders and the first president of the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture.
Vasyl was one of the founders and the first president of the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture.
The founders of the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture, on the day of its opening. Standing (left to right): Mr. Narbut, B. Krychevsky and M. Boychuk. Sitting A. Manevich, A.Murashko, F. Krychevsky, M.Hrushevsky (head of the Central Rada), I. Steshenko, N. Burachek.
In 1918-1919, Krychevsky held the post of the director of Mirhorodskiy Ceramic College.
During the period from 1927 to 1928, Vasyl worked as a teacher at Grekov Odessa Art school.
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Vasyl Krychevsky was born on January 12, 1873 in Vorozhba, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Vorozhba, Ukraine). He was the son of Hryhoriy Yakymovych Krychevsky, a doctor, and Praskovia Hryhorivna Krychevskaya. Vasyl's brother, Fedir Krychevsky, was an influential Ukrainian early modernist painter.
Vasyl studied at the Railroad school in Kharkiv, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine).
In 1897, Krychevsky paintings were exhibited for the first time in Kharkiv. During the period from 1899 to 1902, he took part in the annual exhibitions of the Society of Russian Watercolorists in Saint Petersburg.
Since 1907 to 1910, Krychevsky designed sets and costumes for some fifteen plays and operas, produced by the Sadovsky’s Theater in Kyiv, including Mykhailo Starytsky's "Bohdan Khmel’nyts’kyi", Ivan Karpenko-Kary's "Sava Chalyi", B. Smetana's "The Bartered Bride" and S. Moniuszko's "Halka". Noted for their realism and attention to detail, his sets occasionally assumed an abstract or grotesque character to match the atmosphere of the drama.
In 1912-1915, Vasyl served as an instructor in Varvara and Bohdan Khanenko's kilim weaving and cloth-printing workshop in Olenivka, Ukraine.
During the period from 1917 to 1918, he worked at the Ukrainian National Theater.
Since 1918 to 1919, Krychevsky held the post of the director of a Ceramics school (present-day Mirgorodskiy Ceramic College) in Myrhorod.
In the 1920s, Vasyl taught at the Kyiv Institute of Plastic Arts and the Kyiv Architectural Institute (present-day Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture). In 1927, he taught for a year at Grekov Odessa Art school. Some time later, he taught at the architectural department of the Kyiv State Art Institute (present-day National Academy of Art and Architecture) until 1941.
Moving to Lviv in 1943, he was later appointed a rector of a new Ukrainian art school, the Higher Art Studio. After the war, Krychevsky lived briefly in Paris before immigrating in 1947 to South America.
Also, in the Soviet period, Vasyl served as a consultant and artistic director for twelve films shot in Ukraine, including Taras Shevchenko (1926), Taras Triasylo (1927), Zvenyhora (1928) and The Sorochyntsi Fair (1939), the first Ukrainian color film.
Vasyl Krychevsky was mostly known for his projects, such as Poltava Governorate Administration building, Shevchenko Museum in Kiev, Coat of arms of Ukraine (1918), Writers' building Rolit and others. He also gained prominence as one of the founders of modern Ukrainian book design.
Krychevsky was the founder and the first president of the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture.
His largest set of works is kept in the Ukrainian Museum in New York.
Vasyl was married to Yevheniya Scherbakyvska.
