Dioniziy Sholdra

Dioniziy Sholdra (; 16 October 1925 – 29 September 1995) was a Ukrainian painter, architect, and restorer.

Biography

He was born on 16 October 1925 in Ternopil. The house where the artist spent his childhood has been preserved to this day at 8 Lystopadova Street.

He studied at the Polish-language Second Ternopil Gymnasium. In March 1944, he left for the West. He studied painting, art history, and restoration theory at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

In 1952, he became a member of the Ukrainian Artist's Association in USA. He studied painting and practical restoration at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 1958 to 1965, he was a professor at Ainberg and Valizer.

In 1975, Sholdra opened a restoration workshop in New York City (at the corner of 45th Street and 5th Avenue). Here he restored works of art, including pastels by Pablo Picasso and paintings by Salvador Dalí, whom he met on several occasions. In 1982, the workshop and his creative work were destroyed by fire. Two works were saved: a portrait of his daughter "Liuba" and a still life by French painter B. Nouville, which was later restored by Sholdra but disappeared in Kyiv in 1994 under unexplained circumstances.

He returned to his homeland during the time of Independent Ukraine.

From 1993 to 1995, he worked as the head of the restoration workshop at the Ternopil Regional Art Museum.

He died on 29 September 1995 in Ternopil. He was buried in the .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions:

• Lethbridge, Canada, 1965
• New York City, USA, 1983
• Kyiv, Ukraine, 1994
• Ternopil, Ukraine, 1995, 2005, 2015, 2023, 2025.

Paintings

The works currently stored at the Ternopil Regional Art Museum were donated by the author in 1994:

• Peizazh z tserkvoiu, 1972
• Pislia bureviiu, 1990
• Zyma, 1983
• Materynstvo, 1965
• Vtikachi (Rozryvka. Smutok), 1964
• Bezdomni, 1965
• Stari budynky, 1971
• Vtikachi, 1964
• Ranok v lisi, 1983
• Pokhoron, 1964
• Dub, 1984
• Hirskyi potik, 1963
• Try verby, 1982
• Verby pislya doshchu, 1981
• Dorohovkaz, 1964
• Try dereva, 1981
• Hruden, 1982
• Eifelieva vezha, 1957
• Verba, 1981
• Plyazh El Paraíso (Chile), 1963
• Osinnie svitlo, 1983
• Avtoportret, 1951
• Samitnie derevo, 1964
• Ranok, 1947
• Zhinka z dytynoiu, 1951
• Portret zhinky, 1969
• Troianda, 1945
• Hora Little Chief, 1965
• Zamok u Kufstein (Austria), 1958
• Tort z troyandoiu, 1965
• Portret druzhyny, 1968
• Vezha, 1967
• Buria, 1964
• Samitnie derevo, 1983
• Avtoportret, 1953
• Avtoportret, 1956
• Na Verkhovyni, 1971
• Pislia buri, 1951
• Hora Riffler (Tyrol), 1946

Honouring

In 1998, a memorial plaque (sculptor Oleksandr Maliar) was installed on the house at No. 8 on Lystopadova Street, on the corner of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi Street, where the artist spent his childhood.

The memory of Dioniziy Sholdra is immortalized in the Memorial Hall, which was opened at the Ternopil Regional Art Museum in 1998.

References

Bibliography

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