Ivan Babij (1896-1974) is a Ukrainian painter and draftsman of the neoclassical direction. He spent his youth in Kherson and Kharkiv. After the defeat of the Ukrainian revolution, he emigrated to Germany. He received his art education at the Berlin Academy of Arts in the class of Professor Erich Wolfsfeld. Since 1925 he lived in Paris. Participant of exhibitions in Berlin (since 1923), the "New Language" exhibition at the Mannheim Museum (1925); in Paris, in particular in the "Autumn Salon" (1925-1935, he was a member of it), "Salon of Independents" (1926-1935, 1941-1945, 1947); The Jubilee Exhibition of the Art of the Peoples of the USSR in Moscow, the First All-Ukrainian Jubilee Exhibition (all — 1927), the joint Ukrainian-French art exhibition in Lviv (1932). Personal exhibitions in Berlin (1924) and Paris (1929). In the 1930s, he worked for a long time in Africa, where he painted portraits, landscapes and ethnographic sketches. He went missing (1949) and his further fate is unknown, only the date of his death.
Ivan Babij (1896-1974) is a Ukrainian painter and draftsman of the neoclassical direction. He spent his youth in Kherson and Kharkiv. After the defeat of the Ukrainian revolution, he emigrated to Germany. He received his art education at the Berlin Academy of Arts in the class of Professor Erich Wolfsfeld. Since 1925 he lived in Paris. Participant of exhibitions in Berlin (since 1923), the "New Language" exhibition at the Mannheim Museum (1925); in Paris, in particular in the "Autumn Salon" (1925-1935, he was a member of it), "Salon of Independents" (1926-1935, 1941-1945, 1947); The Jubilee Exhibition of the Art of the Peoples of the USSR in Moscow, the First All-Ukrainian Jubilee Exhibition (all — 1927), the joint Ukrainian-French art exhibition in Lviv (1932). Personal exhibitions in Berlin (1924) and Paris (1929). In the 1930s, he worked for a long time in Africa, where he painted portraits, landscapes and ethnographic sketches. He went missing (1949) and his further fate is unknown, only the date of his death.
Ivan Babij (1896-1974) is a Ukrainian painter and draftsman of the neoclassical direction. He spent his youth in Kherson and Kharkiv. After the defeat of the Ukrainian revolution, he emigrated to Germany. He received his art education at the Berlin Academy of Arts in the class of Professor Erich Wolfsfeld. Since 1925 he lived in Paris. Participant of exhibitions in Berlin (since 1923), the "New Language" exhibition at the Mannheim Museum (1925); in Paris, in particular in the "Autumn Salon" (1925-1935, he was a member of it), "Salon of Independents" (1926-1935, 1941-1945, 1947); The Jubilee Exhibition of the Art of the Peoples of the USSR in Moscow, the First All-Ukrainian Jubilee Exhibition (all — 1927), the joint Ukrainian-French art exhibition in Lviv (1932). Personal exhibitions in Berlin (1924) and Paris (1929). In the 1930s, he worked for a long time in Africa, where he painted portraits, landscapes and ethnographic sketches. He went missing (1949) and his further fate is unknown, only the date of his death.
