HalynaMyroslava"Frames"/ ГалинаМирослава "Рами"
Channel: Halyna Myroslava
Date: 2010-06-19

Thanks to Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowich(Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz),Анна Білінська-Богданович. The poem is dicated to Petro Humenyuk, a famous Ukrainian artist.
Anna Bilińska - Bohdanowicz or Bohdanowiczowa is a Polish Ukrainian academic painter,one of the greatest  artists of the nineteenth century, for many years settled in Paris.She has gained the greatest fame as a portraitist, but her creative output includes landscapes, still lifes and genre scenes.
 Born in 1857 in Zlatopil in Ukraine, died in 1893 in Warsaw. She was a daughter of a doctor who has practiced in Kyiv(Kiev) and other cities near Kyiv. She developed her musical talent and artistic. During her staying in Wiatka(Russia), where they spent a deportation being Poles in Russia  in the years 1869 - 1871 she took her first lessons of Michael Elwiro Andriolli. After her family   moved to Warsaw, since 1875 for two years she was studying at the music conservatory, and then enrolled at the private school of painting led by Wojciech Gerson. Already in 1876 began to exhibit at the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, and her work first gained a favorable opinion of critics, Gerson also valued the ability of a young painter. At the beginning of 1882 years was accompanied by a patient friend, Klementynie Krassowski in foreign travel, spent time in Munich, Salzburg and Vienna, as well as in northern Italy.
 In November 1882 she went to Paris and began studying at the Académie Julian. She studied at the studio for women under the direction of Rodolphe's Julian and Tony Robert - Fleury. In 1883 she went to Ukraine where visited the Krassowskis, the family and  were staying in Lviv at Grabowski's.Returning to Paris remained the lessons drawing in the studio Olivier Merson, occasionally selling their work. Her school work professors enjoyed the appreciation, already in 1883 obtained the second prize in the contest organized at the Académie Julian. 
The situation changed in 1884, when a close friend of Anna died. Drama entailed other traumatic experience for the painter, which was the death of her fiance - Wojciech Grabowski from Lviv(now Ukraine,then Poland). The departure next two people in less than a year has caused the depressive illness, which had been tormenting the next month plunged in mourning artist. Paradoxically, the death of a friend - Clementine Krasowski, however, contributed to the improvement of living conditions  of Bilinska Anna, who received the prescribed property in a will.
  Her painted portraitswas were highly appreciated, she was not only a great mastery of technique, but they have brought psychological depth. Her works have been repeatedly awarded and exhibited both at home and abroad. Anna used to visit the Paris Salons, organized exhibitions of her works also in Munich, London, the United States and Grenoble.
 In 1885 received an "honorable mention" at the show Noir et Blanc. In Paris he befriended, among others, with Joseph and his family Chelmonski Wladyslaw Mickiewicz.The situation changed in 1884, when a close friend of Anna died. Drama entailed other traumatic experience for the painter, which was the death of her fiance - Wojciech Grabowski from Lviv(now Ukraine,then Poland). The departure next two people in less than a year has caused the depressive illness, which had been tormenting the next month plunged in mourning artist. Paradoxically, the death of a friend - Clementine Krasowski, however, contributed to the improvement of living conditions  of Bilinska Anna, who received the prescribed property in a will.
  Summer months are often spent in the countryside near Paris, or Lyon, also travelled to Britain. In 1892 she married a doctor in Paris, AnthonyBohdanowich, a  Pole from Lithuania. At their part  were Władysław Mickiewicz and Col. Joseph Gałęzowski, from her fiance two colleagues - Dr. Noel Halle and Dr. Joachim Albarran. It was a social event such a large measure of that recorded them, "Le Figaro".
But "Le Figaro" does not mention that Bilinska - was more than 10 years seriously ill, although she did not realize the seriousness of the situation. Bohdanowicz doctor Bohdanowicz husband, tries to save her. Unfortunately, in vain.
The same year they both came back to Warsaw. Bilinska intended to open a school of painting there for women, modeled on the Parisian universities. The implementation of these plans has prevented serious heart disease, and soon the artist's death.His husband wrote a book about her. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Bilinska-Bohdanowicz
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Галина Мирослава "Рами". Присвячено Петрові Гуменюку, відомому українському художникові.
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