Roman Sel`skiy

1903-1990

Roman Sel`skiy
(1903, Sokal, Lviv region – 1990, Lviv).

1922 – Graduated from Lviv Art and Industrial School.
1927 – Graduated from the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts.
1927 – 1929 – Attended the Free Art School of Fernan Léger in Paris.
1929 – 1930 – Co-founder and first chairman of the creative association “Artes”.
1947 – 1974 – Head of the Department of Painting at the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative arts.
1989 – Awarded the title “People`s Artist of the USSR.”
Lived and worked in Lviv.