KRICHEVSKY Vasily (Vasil vasilovich)

1901 (Kharkov) — 1978 (USA)

Painter, graphic artist, set designer

the artist's family: youngest son В. Г. Кричевского nephew Ф. Г. Кричевского brother Н. В. Кричевского. He graduated from gymnasium in Kiev. Original art education was under the guidance of his father. He studied in Kyiv Institute of plastic arts — Kiev art Institute; graduated in 1923.

he Lived in Kiev. Worked as an artist in Odessa and Kiev film studios (1920-30-е). Issued more than 16 кинофильмов, including "Earth" А. П. Довженко (1930). He painted portraits, landscapes, still lifes. To book graphics.

Participated in the anniversary exhibition of works of artists of the USSR, dedicated to the 20-летию the October revolution (1937) in Kiev, Moscow and Odessa, the Ukrainian Soviet exhibition of painting, sculpture and graphics (1938), 3-й reporting the exhibition of works of artists of Kiev (1941) in Kiev, the exhibition of works of artists of the USSR (for the period 1936-1940) in Lviv.

In 1949 вслед for his brother Nicholas and father, who emigrated earlier, he left for the USA.