Roman Bezpalkiv | |
Birth Date: | 15 April 1938 |
Birth Place: | village Hlushyn, Lviv region (Lviv Oblast) |
Death Place: | Lviv Buried - Lychakiv Cemetery |
Field: | Painting, Drawing |
Training: | Lviv Medical Institute (1956-1962), Lviv National Academy of Arts (1965-1971). |
Movement: | Ukrainian impressionist |
Awards: | Honored Artist of Ukraine (1998) |
Roman Bezpalkiv (Ukrainian: [[:uk:Безпалків Роман Михайлович|Рома́н Безпа́лків]]) - (15 April 1938, village Hlushyn, Lviv region (Lviv Oblast) - 19 November 2009, Lviv) - was a Ukrainian painter. Genre - painting, sacral art. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1988). Honored Artist of Ukraine (1998).
1962 graduated from Lviv Medical Institute. In 1965 he enrolled in Lviv National Academy of Arts and finished it in 1971.
From 1970 he worked as a teacher of painting in Lviv College of Decorative and Applied Arts named after Ivan Trush.[1]
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. Participated in the personal, national and international exhibitions.
He died after a long illness on 19 November 2009 and was buried in the Lychakiv Cemetery,[2] Lviv.