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Young
Ukrainian Artist of the 1950's-1960's
Repressed and Murdered By The Soviets
Alla Horska's Artist Studio
Exhibition
of Her Art Work Displayed In Her Honor
By Her Friends On The Day Of Her
Funeral In Kyiv,
Ukraine December 7, 1970
Original Photograph (Private Collection) |
Editors Note--The photograph on
the left is an important rare photograph as it shows in the
lower left corner the artists mock-up of the "infamous" stained
glass window complex being built, in May of 1964, at Kyiv
University in honor of the 150th year of the birth of Taras
Shevchenko.
The stained glass window complex mockup
was destroyed by "authorities" early on the morning of the
day it was to be shown for the first time in honor of T. Shevchenko.
A United Nations delegation was in town for the major Shevchenko
celebration.
What was destroyed was a full-scale
mock-up of the window complex as the final design had not
received final approval from the "authorities" and the final
construction had not yet been started. The destruction of
the window complex mock-up was near the end of May in 1964.
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The stained glass window complex as designed
by Alla Horska and three other artists was never built. Stained
glass windows of another design were built later and can be
seen today at the University in Kyiv.
ArtUkraine will publish more about Alla
Horska and the complete story on the destruction of the stained
glass window complex in the near future.
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"Shevchenko..Mother"
"I Will Glorify Those Insignificant,
Mute Slaves, And Will Place My Word To Guard Them" (Around
outside edge of middle window)
Original Color Sketch Of A Large Stained-Glass Window ComplexDesigned
For The Foyer Of Kyiv University After T. Shevchenko
By Alla Horska In Cooperation With O. Zalypakha, L. Semykina,H.
Seiruk and H. Zubchenko, 1964
Photograph of Sketch Appears In:"Red Shadow Of A Snowball
Tree...
Letters, Memoirs, Articles...Alla Horska" Kyiv, :"Spalakh"
LTD, 1996, Page 218
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"PROPHET"
"Will there by
justice?
Will there be punishment
Of all the Czars
on the land?
Will there be truth
among people.......?
There must be,
otherwise the sun will rise
and set on fire
the whole land".
Taras Shevchenko
(Oh, My Poor, Poor People!)
3. XI, 1860 Petersburg
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"PROPHET---A mosaic by Ukrainian Artists
Panas Zalyvakha, the late Alla Horska, Lyudmyla Semykina, and Halyna
Sevruk, for the vestibule of Kyiv State University to commemorate
the 150th anniversary of the birth of Taras Shevchenko. It was destroyed
by the Russians."
Press Bureau of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc Of
Nations (ABN)
8 Munchen 30, Zeppelinstr, 67, West Germany
(Editor's Note: The postcard was
probably printed in the early 1970's. The image shown on this postcard
is very similiar to the image on the cover of the small booklet
published by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America in 1972
which is published on ArtUkraine.com. It seems according to reliable
sources, the photograph taken at Alla Horska's studio on the day
of here funeral, the book published about Alla Horska in 1996, etc.
that the above image is not the image designed for the stained glass
window complex in Kyiv in 1964. ArtUkraine is continuing to check
this out and will publish further information as it becomes available.
One of the images shows Taras Shevchenko
as an fiery "Prophet In Chains" and the other image shows Taras
Shevchenko as a Father/Mother Shephead type figure holding a women
in his arms and protecting village people. The later image is the
one that seems to be the image actually designed and used by Alla
Horska and the group that worked with her.)
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