Art Memorial Museum Helen Kulchytska

Hidden Gem. A true find for those wishing to view a truly wonderful artist accomplished multiple mediums. Not the easiest to find it is well worth it.

What to tell ... You have to go and watch!

A wonderful museum of history, traditions and culture.

The museum is very interesting, it has many beautiful paintings, painted by the famous painter Olena Kulchitska. I liked visiting it.

Olena Lvivna Kulchytska (September 15, 1877, Berezhany - March 8, 1967, Lviv) - Ukrainian graphic artist, painter, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1956). Member of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR of the 3-4th convocation. Author of more than 4,000 works of art. Olena Kulchytska has clearly manifested herself in various arts: painting, graphics, sacred painting (she created a unique iconostasis), folk applied art, carpet weaving; even designed furniture. All her works are full of humanistic character. Etchings "By the Lamp", "Near the Well", woodcuts "Dovbush", "Winter", the cycle "History of Princely Times", numerous linocuts, among them the famous cycle "Ukrainian Writers" brought our painting much closer to Europe. From 1945 to 1954, Olena Kulchytska taught graphics at the Ukrainian Polygraphic Institute. I. Fedorov, whose professor she became in 1948. Produces a series of linocuts "Troubles of the Ukrainian people." Her albums of watercolors "Folk Architecture of the Western Regions of the USSR" and "Folk Clothes of the Western Regions of the USSR" (1959, more than 100 drawings) are of great artistic and scientific value. From 1928 to 1946, she walked almost all of Western Ukraine, drawing from nature. Olena Kulchytska's designs were included in the golden fund of Ukrainian book illustration ("A Tale of Igor's Regiment", "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors", "Nikita's Fox"). Illustrates the three-volume work of ethnographer Stefanyk. She was a pioneer in the artistic decoration of children's books in Western Ukraine. The artist devoted a lot of energy to carpet weaving: she created sketches of ornaments for carpets, which were then woven by her sister. She also created unique pearls of enamel, bronze, majolica. In her works, she reproduced the spirit of the people as she felt it. In 1967, Olena Kulchytska became a laureate of the Taras Shevchenko State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR. Her works have been exhibited with constant success in many cities around the world.