Ivan Mytrofanovych Severyn

Ivan Severyn (. 23 September 1881 – 20 September 1964) was a Ukrainian painter, student of Opanas Slastion. Member of the , the Union of Artists of Ukraine.

Biography Ivan Severyn was born on 23 September 1881 in Ostapivka, Myrhorod district, Poltava Governorate (now Komyshnia Hromada, Myrhorod Raion, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine).

Until 1905, he studied at the (teacher – Opanas Slastion) and the . From 1907, he graduated from the Kraków Academy of Arts (teachers: Jan Stanisławski and Stanisław Wyspiański). Until 1913, thanks to a scholarship from Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi, the artist improved his skills in the art studios of Munich, Rome, and Paris, and also studied at the Paris Academy of Arts.

In 1913, during a geographical and geological expedition, he painted the Tian Shan and Tibet.

From 1925 to 1927, he taught at an art college, and from 1927 to 1933 at the . In the mid-1930s, he was arrested and exiled to the Gulag, and after Stalin's death he was rehabilitated. He died on 20 February 1964 in Kyiv.

Creativity In Ukrainian art, he belonged to the impressionist masters of the early 20th century (among them Ivan Trush, Oleksa Novakivskyi, Mykola Burachek). From 1927, he presented his works at art exhibitions. His personal vernissages took place in 1909 in Lviv (with the assistance of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi) the Museum of Arts of Prykarpattia, and the . A significant part of the artist's works was lost during the World War II.

Among the important works: Painting – "Zakopane" (1907), "Vechory v Alpakh" (1908–1909), "Okolitsi Rymu" (1910), "Sutinky", "Na Ukraini", "Step Ukrainskyi", "Zymovyi vechir u Karpatakh", "Kubanskyi kozak"; Cycles "Hutsulshchyna" (1905–1911), "Dniprovska HES" (1930–1932); Portraits of Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesia Ukrainka, and others.