Sviatoslav Hordynskyi Sas coat of arms (; 30 December 1906 – 20 May 1993) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, artist, and art historian. In 1952 he became a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Son of , brother of Bohdan-Zynovii, Volodymyr-Yevhen Hordynskyi, , wife of .
Biography.
Sviatoslav Hordynskyi was born on 30 December 1906 in Kolomyia, now Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of Ukraine.
As a child, due to hearing loss, Hordynskyi graduated from the Ukrainian Academic Gymnasium of Lviv in 1924 as an external student. Later he graduated from the Oleksa Novakivskyi Art School, and in 1928 from the Berlin Academy of Arts, and from 1929 he studied at the Académie Fernand Léger in Paris.
From 1931, he lived in Lviv, where he co-founded the ; he also edited the magazine "Mystetstvo" and co-edited the literary and artistic biweekly "Nazustrich".
In 1939, some time before the Red Army occupied Lviv, Hordynskyi moved to Kraków, where he worked as a literary and artistic editor of the Ukrainian Publishing House. Later, after the end of World War II, he was in the camps for displaced persons in Munich, and in 1949 he emigrated to Verona, New Jersey, U.S. He co-founded the .
He died on 18 May 1993 in Verona, U.S. He is buried at the in Bound Brook, New Jersey, U.S.
Works.
Hordynskyi is also known as a translator of many languages, including the "The Tale of Igor's Campaign".
Poetry collections:
Individual editions:
Hordynskyi was also recognized as a monumentalist, iconographer, and book graphic artist. He participated in graphic arts exhibitions in Warsaw (1932), Berlin (1933), and Rome (1938), as well as in group exhibitions in the US and Canada. He has created paintings and posters, as well as painted churches in Europe and America.
He was also a talented art critic, publishing books about art:
Honoring.
In 2006, Ukraine celebrated the 100th anniversary of Hordynskyi's birth at the state level, which was crowned by an exhibition at the National Museum of Lviv entitled "Facets of Creativity: Early Graphics, Literary and Critical Heritage".