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1920s–1930s
Executed Renaissance
Розстріляне Відродження
The generation of Ukrainian artists and writers of the 1920s–30s whose national cultural flowering was suppressed by Soviet terror, with many executed or driven to death during the Great Purge.
Artists of the Movement
Fedir Krychevsky
1879–1947
Leading early-modernist painter; co-founder/rector of the Ukrainian State Academy of Arts; created the triptych 'Life' (Venice Biennale 1928); persecuted after WWII, died in poverty 1947.
Mykhailo Boychuk
1882–1937
Founder of Boychukism, a monumental school synthesising Byzantine, Quattrocento and Ukrainian folk art; co-founder/rector of the Ukrainian State Academy of Arts. Executed by the NKVD on 13 July 1937; nearly all his monumental works were destroyed.
