Robert Lisovskyi
Robert Lisovskyi (Robert Lisowskyj; 29 December 1893, Kamianske – 28 December 1982, Geneva) was a Ukrainian graphic artist, book designer and public figure, a student of Mykhailo Boichuk and Heorhii Narbut. He studied at the Myrhorod art and industrial school, the Kyiv art college and the Ukrainian State Academy of Arts (1917–1920). He designed books for Kyiv publishers and worked with Les Kurbas's Young Theatre. Arrested by the Bolsheviks in 1920, he escaped to Poland. In Warsaw he designed state banknotes; in 1923–1927 he worked in Lviv as a graphic artist, church painter and teacher. He studied at the Berlin State Academy of Fine Arts (1927–1929), then lived in Prague (1929–1945), designing publications of the Ukrainian emigration, including the Prague School poets. In 1939 he worked with Oksana Liaturynska on the gravestone of Yevhen Konovalets. From 1950 he lived in London; he died in Geneva.Collection21