Ukrainian artist and musician. Author of works on Ukrainian themes. He died in Odesa, Romania.
Biography.
Volodymyr Kryhatskyi was born on June 8, 1877 in Odesa in the family of Gabriel Kryhatskyi, a railway employee.
From 1896 to 1902, he studied at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at Novorossiysk University, after which he worked at the customs for several years.
He received his artistic education at the private art school of M. Manilam, and then, from 1897, he studied at the Odesa Art School.
At various times, Volodymyr Kryhatskyi took lessons from Odesa artists Holovkov, Tortsevych, and Naake.
In 1910 - 1917, he participated in spring exhibitions in Katerynoslav (now Dnipro), Yelisavethrad (now Kropyvnytskyi), Kyiv, and Mykolaiv.
In 1913-1914 he participated in the Odesa spring art exhibitions.
From 1913 to 1920, he was a member of the Society of Southern Artists, as well as the United Society, and a member of the board of the Independent Society.
From 1925 he was a member of the Kiriak Kostandi Art Society.
Kryhatskyi painted mostly landscapes.
In 1939-1940 Volodymyr Kryhatskyi worked in Odesa art and sculpture workshops. He exhibited about 50 of his works at the first and second reporting exhibitions of the workshops.
In 1941, the Odesa Regional Department of Arts was preparing to hold Kryhatskyi's solo exhibition, but the war prevented the exhibition from taking place.
Volodymyr Kryhatskyi also played the guitar professionally, which he learned from his father. Later, he studied with the Greek Hadumogly, who came from Constantinople and organized an orchestra of folk instruments in Odesa.
Krykhatskyi was influenced as a musician by the virtuoso guitarist Goldberg, who came to Odesa in 1890, and Baron Heorhii Klodt, a student of Dekker-Schenck who moved from St. Petersburg to Odesa in 1903.
Kryhatsky played in a duet with the teacher for two years, and after Klodt's death in 1905, he organized a guitar group-the first Odesa guitar school.
Volodymyr Kryhatskyi died on April 18, 1942 in Odesa at the age of 65.
The artist's works are kept in the Odesa Art Museum, in museum and private collections in Ukraine.
