Oksana Liaturynska
Oksana Liaturynska was a Ukrainian poet, sculptor and painter of the 'Prague school'. She was born on 1 February 1902 at the Lisky farmstead (now part of the village of Khoma) in the Ternopil region. In the early 1920s she studied at the Ivan Steshenko Ukrainian Gymnasium in Kremenets. In 1924 she came to Prague, where she finished the Ukrainian Real Gymnasium and then studied at the philosophy faculty of Charles University, at the Ukrainian Studio of Plastic Arts and at the Czech State School of Applied Arts. She was active in the Union of Ukrainian Women and exhibited in London, Paris and Berlin. In 1932 she made a monument to fallen Ukrainian Sich Riflemen in Pardubice, as well as busts of Shevchenko, Masaryk, Petliura and Konovalets. Her collections Husla (1938) and Kniazha emal (1941), dedicated to Yurii Daragan, appeared in Prague. In Prague she began to lose her hearing. After the war she lived in a displaced persons camp in Aschaffenburg and emigrated to the United States in 1949. She died in Minneapolis on 13 June 1970.Collection7