Oleksa Shatkivskyi

Oleksa Yakovych Shatkivskyi (28 May 1908, in Smikh near Pochaiv – 28 June 1979 in Lviv) was a Ukrainian painter and graphic artist, originally from Pochaiv in Volhynia.

Biography From 1914, he lived in Sicheslavschyna. In 1918, he returned home and studied at the Pochaiv Icon Painting Workshop. His first teachers were Oleksandr Tsykutskyi and Oleksandr Yakymchuk (1926–1930). After that since 1931 he continued education at the Warsaw School of Applied Arts from Tadeusz Pruszkowski (received 14 awards for painting and graphics),

In 1981, a large posthumous exhibition of his works took place in Lviv and Ternopil.

Works Oleksa Shatkivsky's works are housed in the Lviv and Lutsk art galleries, the National Union of Artists of Ukraine in Kyiv, the National Museum of Poland in Warsaw, and private collections.

His numerous paintings depict landscapes of Volhynia, the Carpathians, and Lviv, paintings for the 100th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko's death (1961), and many lithographs and engravings.

Shatkivsky's creativity is marked by features of impressionism and belongs to the post-impressionism movement that emerged in the 1880s. Artists of this movement sought visual impressions and aimed to convey the materiality of the world freely and abstractly, resorting to decorative stylization.

Retrospective exhibitions of Shatkivsky's works took place in Lviv in 1968, 2008 (dedicated to the centenary of his birth, at the Lviv National Museum), and in 2023 (Graphics of Oleksa Shatkivsky, LNMA, Lviv).