Mykhailo Dragan (; 21 November 1899 – 8 March 1952) was a Ukrainian art historian. In 1952, he received a Doctor of Art history degree, and in 1944–1948 he was a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine.Dragan Mykhailo Dmytrovych
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Biography

Mykhailo Dragan was born on 21 November 1899 in , now part of

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. He graduated from several educational institutions, including in 1920 – Oleksa Novakivskyi Art School, 1924 – Secret Ukrainian University, 1925 – Kraków Academy of Arts (teachers Penkowski and W. Jarocki), 1931 –

University of Lviv The Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (named after Ivan Franko, ) is a state-sponsored university in Lviv, Ukraine. Since 1940 the university is named after Ukrainian poet Ivan Franko. The university is the oldest institution of highe ...

. In 1924, he started working at the National Museum of Lviv, where in 1939–1950 he was deputy director and head of the Department of Ancient Art, but was later dismissed for his active work in the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists; he also served as the head of the Museum of the Lviv Theological Academy in 1932–1939; in 1945–1947 he was a senior researcher at the . He died on 8 March 1952 in Lviv.

Works

His research interests included church architecture and sacred art of Galicia and

Boikivshchyna The Boykos or Boikos (; ; ; ), or simply Highlanders (; ), are an ethnolinguistic group located in the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland. Along with the neighbouring Lemkos and Hutsuls, the Boykos are a regional subg ...

. Dragan was also the first to systematically describe and draw types of Boykos architecture, including 2,500 drawings. He contributed to the magazines " Dilo" and "" on the topics of artistic life in Lviv. He was also in charge of restoration and conservation, including the Piatnitskyi and iconostases, and left the project for the reconstruction of the latter in the drawing. Among the main monographs: * ''Скит Манявський і Богородчанський іконостас'' (1926, co-author) * catalog of the posthumous exhibition of

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(1931) * ''Сучасний український екслібрис: Збірник Асоціації незалежних українських мистців'' (1932) * ''Українські дерев'яні церкви: Генеза і розвій форм''. Volumes. 1–2 (1937) * ''Живопис Західної України'' (1945) * ''Українська декоративна різьба XVII–XVIII ст.'' (1970, prepared for publication by Vira Svientsitska)

Honoring the memory

In the 1990s,

Drohobych Drohobych ( ; ; ) is a city in the south of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Drohobych Raion and hosts the administration of Drohobych urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. In 1939–1941 and 1944–1959 it w ...

hosted the annual "Dragan readings".

References

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