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Robert Lisovskyi

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Lufthansa crane
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists emblem
Ukrainian scouting organization Plast

Robert Lisovskyi (Template:Lang-uk; 29 December 1893 – 28 December 1982) is Ukrainian artist and graphic designer, a follower of Mykhailo Boychuk and Heorhiy Narbut. He was specializing in various forms of graphic arts, particularly printmaking, book illustration, decorative and applied arts, scenography and design.

The artist is known for his logo designs of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Lufthansa's crane.

Lisovskyi was a head of the Associations of Ukrainian in Great Britain.

Biography

Lisovsky was born in a family of the director of mechanical shops in Kamianske. His mother Julia von Ander was of German descent. Robert also was baptized as Evangelical Lutheran. His elementary education, Lisovsky received in a local German school.

In 1906 Lisovsky attended Hohol Arts School in Myrhorod where he received instructions from such artists like Opanas Slastion and Latvian Rūdolfs Pelše (1880 — 1942). Later he studied at the Murashko Drawing School in Kiev (director Mykola Murashko) along with Vasyl Sedlyar, Anatol Petrytsky, Pavlo Kovzhun, and others. After that Lisovsky studied at the Ukrainian State Academy of Arts in Kiev.

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