Ukrainian jeweler Sergei Kruchinin dies in Mykolaiv

It has become known that Serhiy Kruchynin, a jeweler and representative of the Kharkiv school, has passed away.

This was reported by the Mykolaiv Regional Art Museum named after V. Vereshchagin on its Facebook page.

In 1982-1986, Kruchynin worked on the museum's reconstruction project: He chose the color scheme of the facade, created lattices and other decorative elements. In 1996, together with Serhii Doroshenko and Serhii Rosliakov, the artist presented a unique exhibition of jewelry called 3 SN Studio at the Shipbuilding Museum, which became a resonant artistic event for the city.

A sterling silver bracelet by Kruchinin. PHOTO: Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine

More than 400 exhibits from two museums are being digitized in Mykolaiv. This list includes graphic works from the second half of the 20th century by famous Ukrainian artists such as Maria Prymachenko, Mykola Hlushchenko, Tetiana Yablonska, and artists of the southern steppe.

In the second half of the twentieth century, despite the general centralization, the work of individual artists developed, who had their own distinctive style, and the development of local unions began in Mykolaiv, Odesa, and Kherson.

This period was marked by the revival of national art, which began during the Khrushchev Thaw, when the artistic life of the country intensified. That is why the collections include the names of leading intellectuals and young artists from the South, as well as artists from other regions.

The authors of these graphic works include: Roman Vainshtok, Anatolii Zavhorodnyi, Fedir Kumpan, Mykola Berezhnyi, Oleksandr Mahervaks, Valerii Kuptsov, Volodymyr Bakhtov, Ivan Bulavytskyi, Volodymyr Olshanskyi, as well as the well-known names of Tetiana Yablonska, Mykola Hlushchenko, Viktor Puzyrkov, Lavrentii Zharenko, and watercolors by Kateryna Krychevska-Rosandich from the Krychevskyi family.

Катерина Глушко