Partisan-scouts of Kovpak in the Carpathians

Ostap Romanovych Hnatiuk was a Ukrainian graphic artist and painter. He was born on October 23, 1933 in the village of Kozyna (now Ivano-Frankivsk district of Ivano-Frankivsk region). He studied from 1954 to 1957 at the N. Krupskaya Central House of Folk Art in Moscow, and from 1957 to 1962 at the Kosiv School of Applied Arts under V. Huz, M. Fedirko, M. Varenia, V. Havrysh and O. Solomchenko. Hnatiuk worked in the fields of easel painting, easel graphics, monumental and decorative art, and participated in republic and all-Union exhibitions starting in 1961. His main works include portraits of his wife (1976) and grandchild Natalka (1979), "Self-Portrait" (1980), and portraits of T. Shevchenko, O. Pushkin, and Yanka Kupala (all – 1982); the mosaics “Opryshki” (1989) and “Girl and Cossack” (1991); “The Lord of the Valley”, “Oleksa Dovbush”, and a decorative plate with a portrait of T. Shevchenko (all – 1961), the triptych “T. Shevchenko – Poet of All Nations of the World” (1964), “Hutsul Love” (1968), the series “Seasons in the Carpathians” (1971), “Hutsul Wedding”, “Legends about Oleksa Dovbush” (both – 1972), “Evening Still Life” (1977), “A Village Beyond the Dniester”, “Sailing Yachts” (both – 1979), “My Transnistria” (1984), “In the Valley, Mount Khomyak” (1997), “Danylo Halytsky on a Campaign”, “Autumn in the Khomyakiv Forest” (both – 1998), “Chornohora”, “Hutsul Wedding” (both – 2002), “Oleksa Dovbush and Opryshki”, and “Cossacks' Rest” (both – 2003). His works are kept in Ukrainian museums. Hnatiuk died in Ivano-Frankivsk on January 20, 2004.