Roman Bezpalkiv

Roman Mykhailovych Bezpalkiv (; 15 April 1938 – 19 November 2009) was a Ukrainian painter. Known for his painting and sacral art, he was a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, and was titled Honored Artist of Ukraine (1998).

Biography In 1962, Bezpalkiv graduated from the Lviv Medical Institute. In 1965, he was enrolled in Lviv National Academy of Arts and finished it in 1971.

From 1970, he worked as a teacher of painting in Ivan Trush Lviv College of Decorative and Applied Arts.

Bezpalkiv was the author of many scenic and of sacral of works, among them philosophical portraits of figures of Ukrainian culture as Taras Shevchenko, Bohdan Ihor Antonych, Markiyan Shashkevych, Ivan Vyshenskyi, Kateryna Bilokur and others. He participated in personal, national, and international exhibitions.

He died after a long illness on 19 November 2009 and was buried in the Lychakiv Cemetery, Lviv.