Modest Danylovych Sosenko (; 28 April 1875 — 4 February 1920) was a Ukrainian

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and monumental artist.

Life

Modest Sosenko was born in the village of Porohy of the Austrian Crown lands

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, in present-day

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of Ukraine, into the family of a

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.Modest Sosenko
in the Encyclopaedia of the History of Ukraine; retrieved 28 February 2021 (in Ukrainian). With the financial support of Metropolitan

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in the

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; retrieved 28 February 2021. he studied at the

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from 1896 to 1900, at the

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in 1901 and 1902, and at the

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from 1902 to 1905. He lived in Lviv from 1906, but travelled frequently to Italy in the years between 1908 and 1913, visited the Russian Ukraine in 1913, and Egypt and

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in 1914. Between 1916 and 1918, he served as a soldier in the Austrian army on the front lines of

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. Sosenko painted

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, iconostases and church paintings. In the latter, he combined traditional

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with modern artistic approaches, making him a pioneer of Boychukism. He died in Lviv at the age of 44 and was buried there in the Janiwskyj cemetery.

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Life

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