Dioniziy Sholdra

Dioniziy Sholdra (; 16 October 1925 – 29 September 1995) was a Ukrainian painter, architect, and restorer.

Biography He was born on 16 October 1925 in Ternopil. The house where the artist spent his childhood has been preserved to this day at 8 Lystopadova Street.

He studied at the Polish-language Second Ternopil Gymnasium. In March 1944, he left for the West. He studied painting, art history, and restoration theory at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

In 1952, he became a member of the Ukrainian Artist's Association in USA. He studied painting and practical restoration at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 1958 to 1965, he was a professor at Ainberg and Valizer.

In 1975, Sholdra opened a restoration workshop in New York City (at the corner of 45th Street and 5th Avenue). Here he restored works of art, including pastels by Pablo Picasso and paintings by Salvador Dalí, whom he met on several occasions. In 1982, the workshop and his creative work were destroyed by fire. Two works were saved: a portrait of his daughter "Liuba" and a still life by French painter B. Nouville, which was later restored by Sholdra but disappeared in Kyiv in 1994 under unexplained circumstances.

He returned to his homeland during the time of Independent Ukraine.

From 1993 to 1995, he worked as the head of the restoration workshop at the Ternopil Regional Art Museum.

He died on 29 September 1995 in Ternopil. He was buried in the . 2023, 2025.

Paintings The works currently stored at the Ternopil Regional Art Museum were donated by the author in 1994:

Peizazh z tserkvoiu, 1972 Pislia bureviiu, 1990 Zyma, 1983 Materynstvo, 1965 Vtikachi (Rozryvka. Smutok), 1964 Bezdomni, 1965 Stari budynky, 1971 Vtikachi, 1964 Ranok v lisi, 1983 Pokhoron, 1964 Dub, 1984 Hirskyi potik, 1963 Try verby, 1982 Verby pislya doshchu, 1981 Dorohovkaz, 1964 Try dereva, 1981 Hruden, 1982 Eifelieva vezha, 1957 Verba, 1981 Plyazh El Paraíso (Chile), 1963 Osinnie svitlo, 1983 Avtoportret, 1951 Samitnie derevo, 1964 Ranok, 1947 Zhinka z dytynoiu, 1951 Portret zhinky, 1969 Troianda, 1945 Hora Little Chief, 1965 Zamok u Kufstein (Austria), 1958 Tort z troyandoiu, 1965 Portret druzhyny, 1968 Vezha, 1967 Buria, 1964 Samitnie derevo, 1983 Avtoportret, 1953 Avtoportret, 1956 Na Verkhovyni, 1971 Pislia buri, 1951 Hora Riffler (Tyrol), 1946

Honouring In 1998, a memorial plaque (sculptor Oleksandr Maliar) was installed on the house at No. 8 on Lystopadova Street, on the corner of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi Street, where the artist spent his childhood.

The memory of Dioniziy Sholdra is immortalized in the Memorial Hall, which was opened at the Ternopil Regional Art Museum in 1998.