Anatol Petrytsky (January 31 (February 12), 1895, Kyiv-March 6, 1964, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian painter, stage and compilation designer.
Petrytsky was born in the intimates of a railwayman. From 1912 to 1918, he studied at the Kiev Art School. Was an apprentice of Vasyl Krychevsky. At the thesame time, he studied at the studio of Alexander Murashko. In 1916, he debuted as a stage designer. He was Chief Artist of the Young Theater, Les Kurbas (1917-1919) and completed the majority of theatre performances, including “Autumn,” “Candida,” “Flooded Bell,” and “Christmas Vertep.”
In 1927, he was one of the founders (together later than writers Geo Shkurupii, Dmitry Buzk, Leonid Skrypnyk, Oleksiy Poltoratsky, and Oleksii Vlizko ,and player Vadym Meller) of the militant organization “New Generation.”
Petrytsky was the main player of the First State Drama Theater of the Ukrainian SSR and the Ukrainian musical stand-in in Kyiv, and also designed books and magazines. He associated the scholastic associations White Studio (1918) and Flamingo (1919).
The painting “Disabled” by A. Petrytsky was presented at the Venice Biennale of 1930, received a high grade, and then traveled to America for several years as share of an exhibition of paintings, many of which were written by the European press.
Petrytsky died on March 6, 1964 and was buried in Baykovoye Cemetery in Kiev. His tombstone was bronze, the ham it up of sculptor G. N. Kalchenko, and installed in 1970.
More than 500 of Petrytsky’s works of stage design partner the gathering of the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine. Additionally, some of his works are kept at the National Art Museum of Ukraine.
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