Anton Ivanovich Manastyrsky (1878 - 1969)

Anton Ivanovich Manastyrsky

Anton Ivanovich Manastyrsky (Russian: Антон Иванович Манастырский) was a Ukrainian and Soviet artist of the twentieth century. He is known as a painter and graphic artist.

Anton Manastyrsky became famous for his genre paintings based on Ukrainian folk songs. His works are characterized by plasticity, rhythm and poetry. He also worked in the portrait genre, creating such canvases as "Portrait of Mother", "Portrait of Taras Shevchenko" and others. The master also illustrated books and worked in the religious genre, restoring the iconostasis in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ancient Galich.