Petro Oleksiyovych Levchenko (1856-1917) is a Ukrainian landscape painter, graphic designer, master of interior compositions. He was born in 1956 in the city of Kharkiv, in the family of a wealthy merchant. At the exhibition of student works in 1873 in St. Petersburg, he was awarded a silver medal. In 1878, he went to St. Petersburg to study. He was a free student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1878–1883), where he studied with M. Klodt, P. Chistyakov, and V. Orlovsky. In 1895, he visited Paris, where he got acquainted with the works of the French impressionists, which had an influence on his further work. Levchenko lived mainly in Kharkiv, taught drawing and painting at the Kharkiv City School. He was one of the founders and a permanent member of the Kharkiv Society of Art Lovers, an exhibitor of the Society of Traveling Art Exhibitions (from 1886 to 1904, he was a participant in almost all traveling art exhibitions), the Society of South Russian Artists, the Society of Kyiv Artists, many exhibitions in Kharkiv. Creativity did not bring fame and wealth to the artist during his life. He died in poverty, unrecognized and forgotten. Only after his death in 1917, an exhibition of the master's works was organized, where more than 700 of his canvases were presented, revealing his extraordinary talent.
Petro Oleksiyovych Levchenko (1856-1917) is a Ukrainian landscape painter, graphic designer, master of interior compositions. He was born in 1956 in the city of Kharkiv, in the family of a wealthy merchant. At the exhibition of student works in 1873 in St. Petersburg, he was awarded a silver medal. In 1878, he went to St. Petersburg to study. He was a free student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1878–1883), where he studied with M. Klodt, P. Chistyakov, and V. Orlovsky. In 1895, he visited Paris, where he got acquainted with the works of the French impressionists, which had an influence on his further work. Levchenko lived mainly in Kharkiv, taught drawing and painting at the Kharkiv City School. He was one of the founders and a permanent member of the Kharkiv Society of Art Lovers, an exhibitor of the Society of Traveling Art Exhibitions (from 1886 to 1904, he was a participant in almost all traveling art exhibitions), the Society of South Russian Artists, the Society of Kyiv Artists, many exhibitions in Kharkiv. Creativity did not bring fame and wealth to the artist during his life. He died in poverty, unrecognized and forgotten. Only after his death in 1917, an exhibition of the master's works was organized, where more than 700 of his canvases were presented, revealing his extraordinary talent.
Petro Oleksiyovych Levchenko (1856-1917) is a Ukrainian landscape painter, graphic designer, master of interior compositions. He was born in 1956 in the city of Kharkiv, in the family of a wealthy merchant. At the exhibition of student works in 1873 in St. Petersburg, he was awarded a silver medal. In 1878, he went to St. Petersburg to study. He was a free student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1878–1883), where he studied with M. Klodt, P. Chistyakov, and V. Orlovsky. In 1895, he visited Paris, where he got acquainted with the works of the French impressionists, which had an influence on his further work. Levchenko lived mainly in Kharkiv, taught drawing and painting at the Kharkiv City School. He was one of the founders and a permanent member of the Kharkiv Society of Art Lovers, an exhibitor of the Society of Traveling Art Exhibitions (from 1886 to 1904, he was a participant in almost all traveling art exhibitions), the Society of South Russian Artists, the Society of Kyiv Artists, many exhibitions in Kharkiv. Creativity did not bring fame and wealth to the artist during his life. He died in poverty, unrecognized and forgotten. Only after his death in 1917, an exhibition of the master's works was organized, where more than 700 of his canvases were presented, revealing his extraordinary talent.
