Sofiia Nalepinska-Boichuk Oleksandrivna

Biography

Sofia Oleksandrivna Nalepynska-Boychuk was born on July 30, 1884 in the city of Lodz (now part of Poland). Her father was Polish, and her mother was of French origin. She was the wife of the famous artist Mykhailo Boychuk and a representative of the Shot Revival. Participant of international exhibitions in Vienna, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Venice (Italy), Zurich (Switzerland).

Education

• St. Petersburg School of Promotion of the Arts of Y. Tsionglinskyi (1905)
• Munich Art and Industrial School V. Deblitz (Germany, 1908; taught by Sh. Golloshi)
• Munich Academy of Fine Arts (1906–1907; Professor Heidner)
• Ranson Academy of Arts in Paris (1908–1909 teachers M. Denis, P. Serusier, F. Vallotton)
• School-workshop of M. Boychuk (1909–1910; Paris)

Creativity

Worked in the field of easel and book graphics, mainly in the technique of wood engraving. In her work, the artist followed the principles of "boychukism".

Create

• "V. Ellan Blue" (1920s)
• "Guitarist" (1921)
• "Young Worker" (1920s)
• "Fabzayets" (1925)
• "I've passed my thirteenth..."
• "Threshing"
• "Malashka"
• "On vacation" (all - 1926)
• "Student"
• "Girls with a book"
• "Hungry children"
• "Before the exam"
• "Before the attack of the whites" (all - 1927)
• "The pest was exposed" (1930s)
• "Pacification of Western Ukraine" (1930)
• "Robitfakivka" (1931)
• "Executed the plan"
• "Get rid of the pest"
• "We will not let the turkeys rot the seeds" (both - 1932) and others

Illustrations for books:

• "Kateryna" by T. Shevchenko
• "Prymak" by A. Mamin-Sibyryak (both - 1929)
• "Olive Ring" by S. Vasylchenko (1930; all - Kharkiv; Kyiv)
• "The Night Before Christmas" and "Terrible Revenge" by M. Gogol
• "Anna Karenina" by L. Tolstoy (Moscow, 1935, vol. 1–2)

Performed thematic composition to Shevchenko's poetry "N. N. - My thirteenth has passed."

The artist is the author of unrealized projects of paper money and other government papers of the era of the Ukrainian revolution 1917–1921, which were exhibited at the "Exhibition of Modern Ukrainian Graphics" of the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists (Lviv, June 1932): 25-ruble banknotes on both sides, court fees 50 shags, 3 hryvnias, 5 sketches of paper money and securities.

The works of S. Nalepynska of the 1920s and 1930s impress not only with their talent, but also with their social orientation. The woodcuts "Hunger", "Pacification of Ukraine in 1932" are sharp, political works that show the wandering of Ukrainians under various authorities.

Death

Sofia Nalepynska-Boychuk was arrested on June 12, 1937 (her husband, Mykhailo Boychuk, much earlier - in November 1936). Employees of the NKVD accused her of "being a member of a counter-revolutionary Ukrainian national-fascist organization and carrying out espionage work for the benefit of foreign intelligence."

Sofia Nalepynska-Boychuk did not confirm the charges and did not give a confession to the investigation. She was interrogated by two people at the same time - the head of the III Department of the IV Department (combating anti-Soviet elements) of the UDB of the NKVD, st. Lieutenant Lyfar and the head of the district department, Sergeant Mynenko.

They tortured her for six months, but the Chekists did not get a confession from S. Nalepynska-Boychuk. The charges were drawn up on the basis of witness statements, and already on December 6, 1937, Sofia Oleksandrivna Nalepynska-Boychuk was sentenced to the highest degree of punishment by the decision of the top two.

Sofia Nalepinska-Boychuk was shot on December 11, 1937 in Kyiv. It was rehabilitated in 1988.

Memory

The name of Sofia Nalepynska-Boychuk is one of more than 40 other names engraved on the Monument to Repressed Artists, opened in 1996 in the park of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture.