Lviv
Ustiyanovycha St, 10
Leopold Levitsky Art Memorial Museum is a museum institution of artistic and memorial direction, a branch of the Andrei Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv, the exposition of the museum is dedicated to the person and work of the famous Ukrainian graphic artist of the twentieth century, one of the pioneers of graphic design and advertising Leopold Levitsky (1906-1973).
The art and memorial museum was created in the artist's house (built in 1891 according to the project of Gustav Bizantzan) on the street K. Ustiyanovich, 10/1, where he lived and worked from 1946 to 1973. The house acquired a modern look after reconstruction in 1968. This house was often visited by prominent Lviv artists (Maria Vodzitska, Yaroslava Muzyka, Roman Turin, Roman and Maria Selski, Omelyan Lischynskyi, Oleksa Shatkivskyi, Vitold Manastirsky) and beginners.
The museum was opened on April 11, 1984 through the efforts of the city public and the artist's wife Geni Levytska, who transferred to the museum the artist's archive: letters, manuscripts, documents and other materials of invaluable importance for the study of the work and personality of Leopold Levitsky, who was one of the key figures in artistic life Lviv 1950s-1960s.
The exposition of the art and memorial museum presents the main pages of the life and work of Leopold Levitsky, reveals the multifaceted talent of the artist, presents the painter as a prominent Ukrainian graphic artist, highlights the artist's creative achievements in painting and recreates the special cultural environment in which he lived taught by L. Levitsky. The exposition, which occupies three rooms and the entrance hall of the apartment, is made up of the interior of the apartment, items of personal use, part of the artist's creative income from the time of his studies at the Krakow Academy of Arts to the last days of his life. Presented in the exposition is a working printing press, on which most of the author's engravings were printed, and samples of author's greeting cards, with which the artist annually greeted his friends and acquaintances.