Volodymyr Sichynskyi

In this name that followsEast Slavic naming customs, thepatronymic is Yukhymovych and thefamily name is Sichynskyi.

Volodymyr Yukhymovych Sichynskyi^[a] (June 24, 1894 – June 25, 1962) was aUkrainian émigré architect,graphic artist, andart historian.

Volodymyr Sichynskyi
Володимир Січинський

Born	(1894-06-24)June 24, 1894 Kamianets-Podilskyi, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Died	June 25, 1962(1962-06-25) (aged 68) Paterson, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Architect, graphic artist, art historian

Volodymyr Sichynskyi was born to the family ofYukhym Sitsinskyi inKamianets-Podilskyi,Podilia guberniya,Russia, which is in present-dayUkraine.

He graduated from theKamianets Technical School in 1912, and then continued his studies at theSt. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineers (1912-1917) and atCharles University inPrague (1924-1927). During the interim betweenSt. Petersburg andPrague, he taught at the Kamianets Gymnasium (1918–1919), helped organize the Architectural Institute inKyiv (1918-1919) and served as director of the construction department of the Podolia Governorate.

After fleeing fromSoviet rule toLviv, he taught at the Academic Gymnasium there (1921–1923) and then moved to Prague. In Prague, he worked on his doctoral degree, taught at the art-school "Studio" (1923-1945), and served as a lecturer of the history of art at theUkrainian Higher Pedagogical Institute (1923-1933). He received his Ph.D. and was promoted to the rank of professor on October 5, 1927.

He also chaired the Library and Bibliographic Commission of the Ukrainian Society of Bibliophiles in Prague from 1927 and served as the society's president (1934–1943). In 1930 he co-founded the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists in Lviv. From 1930 he was also a full member of theShevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv. Sichynskyi was appointed an assistant professor of art history on January 25, 1940, at theUkrainian Free University, and then was promoted to associate professor on March 22, 1942.

From 1943 to 1945, he was imprisoned and tortured by theGestapo inPrague and inBerlin. A postwar refugee in Germany, in 1949 he emigrated to the United States where he continued to teach at theUkrainian Technical Institute inNew York City. He died on June 25, 1962, inPaterson, New Jersey, aged 68.

In addition to teaching, Sichynskyi worked as an architect designing churches, schools, and many private and public buildings inUkraine,Slovakia,Brazil,Canada, and theUnited States. He designed the Redemptorist Church of the Holy Spirit inMichalovce (1933-1934) and the Boiko-style wooden Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God in Nizny Komarnik, just south of theDukla mountain pass (1937), both inSlovakia; the Ukrainian churches inWhippany, New Jersey (1949), andPorto União,Brazil (1951); and theOrthodox cathedral inMontreal (1957).

Sichynskyi published over 500 articles, books, and reviews. He is the author of works on Ukrainian art, culture, architecture, engraving and printing, industry, and foreign sources on the history of Ukraine. Two bio-bibliographies of Sichynskyi have been published:

Volodymyr Sichyns'kyi: arkhitekt, mystets'hrafik, mystetstvoznavets, doslidnyk - by Ivan Keivan (Toronto, 1957)
Volodymyr Sichyns'kyi: biobibliohrafichnyi pokazhchyk - (Lviv, 1996).

In addition, proceedings of a conference devoted to Sichynskyi have been published under the editorship of Viacheslav Kolomiiets in Kyiv in 1996.