Yevhen Nahirnyi Explained

Yevhen Nahirnyi
Birth Name:Yevhen Vasyliovych Nahirnyi
Birth Date:13 August 1885
Birth Place:Rudne, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine)
Death Place:Lviv
Nationality:Ukrainian
Alma Mater:Lviv Polytechnic School
Occupation:Architect

Yevhen Nahirnyi (Ukrainian: Євген Васильович Нагірний; 13 August 1885 – 8 June 1951) was a Ukrainian architect.

Biography

Yevhen Nahirnyi was born on 13 August 1885 in Rudne, now the Lviv urban hromada of the Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.[1]

In 1912 he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Lviv Polytechnic School. From 1946 he taught at higher education institutions in Lviv; head of the Department of Architecture at the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts.

Yevhen Nahirny died on 8 July 1951 in Lviv. He is buried at the Lychakiv Cemetery on field No. 5.[2]

Works

In 1905–1921 he worked with his father Vasyl Nahirnyi in Lviv. Nahirnyi is the author of more than 500 residential, public, and church buildings in Western Ukraine.

For the construction of houses in Lviv, Nahirnyi used the styles of neoclassicism and functionalism; for sacred buildings, he used Ukrainian Baroque and folk architecture. When designing wooden churches, he mainly developed the traditions of the Boyko school. Also, neo-historicism and modernism can be observed in Nahirny's works.

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Notes and References

  1. https://esu.com.ua/article-70849 Нагірний Євген Васильович
  2. News: Євген Нагірний: той, хто споруджував галицькі храми . RISU . 2021-10-18 .