Hnizdovsky exhibit at Ukrainian Museum
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A new exhibition explores the prolific career of Ukrainian-American artist Jacques Hnizdovsky, a master of intricate woodcuts and paintings depicting an array of stylized flora and fauna.
“Jacques Hnizdovsky: Content and Style” at the Ukrainian Museum in New York’s East Village covers the breadth of his creative output, from 1944 until his death in 1985.
“There are many times when original prints by one artist are more or less interchangeable with prints by other artists, but this is never the case with the woodcuts and linocuts of Jacques Hnizdovsky,” said William Greenbaum, a Massachusetts art dealer and expert in 19th- and 20th-century fine prints.
Recognized especially as a woodcut artist, Hnizkovsky’s works are in the permanent collections of many museums.
After the outbreak of World War II, Hnizdovsky fled to Warsaw, Poland, and then Zagreb, in then-Yugoslavia, where he studied art. In 1944, he wound up in a displaced persons camp near Munich, Germany. One of his masterpieces from that period, “Displaced Persons,” is on view at the museum. The painting depicts the cramped quarters of the camp with an image of six adult refugees and two children occupying three-tiered beds.
Hnizdovsky emigrated to the United States in 1949 and settled a year later in New York City, in the Bronx, where he began experimenting with printmaking, a medium for which he is best known.
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