Kateryna Antonovych
Ukrainian artist and illustrator
Kateryna Mykhaylivna Antonovych (née Serebryakova Ukrainian: Катерина Михайлівна Антонович (Серебрякова); 23 October 1884 – 22 February 1975) was a Ukrainian artist, children's book illustrator and professor of art history. She was active in Ukrainian women's and community organizations.
Life
Kateryna Serebryakova was born in 1884 in Kharkiv. She studied at Kharkiv State School of Art but did not graduate. Later she entered the natural science course at First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg (then the Medical Institute for Women) and studied for four years. Interested in Ukrainian politics from an early age, she became a member of the Ukrainian Revolutionary Party (RUP). After her marriage to Dmitro Antonovych, she moved to Kyiv where she attended classes of the painters Vasyl Krychevsky and Mykhailo Boychuk at the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture. Later she taught drawing at the Rzhyshchev Pedagogical Institute and illustrated several children's books.
In 1923, with her husband and children, Marko, Mykhailo and Maryna Rudnytska, Antonovych emigrated to Prague, where she continued her artistic training at the Ukrainian Studio of Plastic Arts (known as the Ukrainian Academy).
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