Yulian Nazarak (Ukrainian: Юліан Назарак; 1893 – 16 September 1916) was a Ukrainian soldier (desiatnyk, khorunzhyi), poet, painter.[1]
Yulian Nazarak | |
|---|---|
| Юліан Назарак | |
| Born | 1893 Cherkavshchyna, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) |
| Died | 16 September 1916 |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
Biography
editYulian Nazarak was born in 1893 in Cherkavshchyna, now Nahirianka rural hromada, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.[2]
He studied at the Lviv Academic Gymnasium. From 1911 he periodically studied at the Kraków Academy of Arts, but did not graduate.[1]
At the beginning of World War I, he joined the ranks of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen. He was one of the organizers and a member of the "Presova kvartyra". In the spring of 1915, during the Battle of Makivka, he was wounded.[1][2]
He was active in the "Artystychna horstka" riflemen's art society and also played in an amateur theater.[1]
Works
editAuthor of the libretto for the one-act comic opera "Shturm na polukipky" (1915, music by Mykhailo Haivoronskyi), to which he wrote the rifle songs "Khloptsi, aliarm!", "Slava, slava, otamane!", "Nema v sviti krashchykh khloptsiv" (published in collections of arrangements of rifle songs by B. Vakhnianyn, B. Kudryk, Z. Lysko, Y. Yaroslavenko, and others).[1][2][3]
Creativity
editIn 1909, he began painting oil paintings (which were exhibited in the Lviv store of the "Dostava" Union), portraits, figurative compositions, and landscapes.[1]
Main works: "Prometei", "M. Kotsiubynskyi", "Barabannyi vohon artylerii pid Semykivtsiamy" and "Bii pid Rakovtsem" (both 1916; the former is kept in the National Museum of Lviv, and the latter is now destroyed; it was also kept in the same institution until 1952; exhibited in Vienna (1906), Lviv (1916, 1934); recognized by art critics as the first expressionist works of Ukrainian Galician painting).[1]
In 1915, a portrait of Nazarak was painted by Yulian Butsmaniuk.[1]
Honoring
editOn 24 August 2014, a monument to Nazarak was unveiled in his native village.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i Бірюльов, Ю. О. Назарак Юліан // Енциклопедія сучасної України [Електронний ресурс] / Редкол. : І. М. Дзюба, А. І. Жуковський, М. Г. Железняк [та ін.] ; НАН України, НТШ. — К. : Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України, 2020.
- ^ a b c (in Ukrainian) Дуда І., Мельничук Б., Назарак Юліан // Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary: in 4 v. / editorial board: H. Yavorskyi and other, Ternopil: "Zbruch", 2005, V. 2: К—О, S. 593—594. — ISBN 966-528-199-2.
- ^ Василик, С. Назарак Юліан // Українська музична енциклопедія. Т. 4: [Н – О] / Гол. редкол. Г. Скрипник, Київ : ІМФЕ НАНУ, 2016, s. 20.
- ^ Володимир Погорецький (2014-09-02). "В селі Черкавщина Чортківського району відкрито та освячено пам'ятник Юліану Назараку". Золота Пектораль. Archived from the original on 2016-10-23.