Євген Дзиндра (1913-1983). Різьблені стежини життя
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Yevhen Dzyndra (1913-1983) was an outstanding Lviv sculptor of the second half of the 20th century. He came from the town of Demnya near Lviv, which was famous as a local stonemason's center. He was a student of Andriy Koverko and also graduated from the Lviv School of Arts and Crafts. Two of his younger brothers also became sculptors.
The beginning of his creative activity dates back to the Second World War, he was one of the organizers of the Lviv Sculpture and Ceramics Factory, which made figures and monuments for the needs of the new communist government. He also co-authored a monument to Stalin's constitution, designed during World War II by Sergei Litvinenko (the monument was demolished in 1941). Dzyndra received a Lviv villa from the sculptor Janina Reichert-Toth, who left for Cracow after the war. In the postwar period, this house became a meeting place for Lviv artists.
His style combined pre-war Ukrainian realism and the methods of work of folk masons. The artist performed both small works in wood and monumental forms. Unlike other sculptors, Dzindra worked on sculpture in general - from design to self-stone. His legacy also includes numerous posthumous masks of famous Ukrainians.
The most famous sculptures made by the artist are figures of two lions standing in front of the entrance to Lviv City Hall, which replaced the previous ones, destroyed during the Second World War.
The sculptor left about two dozen tombstones in Lychakiv Cemetery. Some of them have a characteristic shape - they are made of stone blocks with a bust of the deceased at the top. His works adorn the tombstones of Ukrainian writers Hryhoriy Tyutyunnyk and Andriy Voloshchak and the first director of the Ukrainian National Museum, Ilarion Sventsitsky.
After his death, the artist was also buried in Lychakiv Cemetery. On his tombstone, one of the students realized the master's idea, which was originally to stand on the grave of opera singer Solomiya Krushelnytska.
