Ivan Levynsky, one of the most interesting architects of the early twentieth century in Lemberg, was born on July 6, 1851, in the Galician town of Dolyna, near Stanislaw (now Ivano-Frankivsk). After having graduated from the Lviv Technical Academy in 1875 he soon opened his own architectural firm, a building materials company and an artistic pottery studio. He became a professor of architecture at the Lviv Polytechnical Institute in 1903.

Levynsky was a founding member of the Prosvita Society and a patron of the Postup Society for workers' enlightenment, the Osnova Student Society and the Silskyi Hospodar Society. He was a member of the board of the National Museum.

Deported to Kyiv in 1914 by the retreating Russian imperial authorities, Levynsky founded the Pratsia agronomic and technical society. After returning to Lviv in 1918, he died on July 4 of the following year.

Levynsky designed and built many of Lviv's public buildings in a style that combined Viennese Secession with references to folk architecture of the Carpathians. Among the landmarks he contributed to the city are the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the George ("Zhorzh") Hotel, the Dnister Insurance Company Building, Akademychnyi Dim, and the ensemble of Asnyka Street (now Bohomoltsya street). He also designed and built hospitals and sanatoria in the Galician capital, in Horodenka, Kolomyia, Ternopil, Vorokhta, Zalishchyky and Zolochiv.

In 1917 and built a Ukrainian Catholic church in the "Hutsul style."

Author of the entry:

• Markian Prokopovych

Sources:

• "Levynsky, Ivan," Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vol. 3 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993).
• See also article on Levynsky in the Ukrainian weekly 26 (1996)
• "Ornament Is Not a Crime: Art Nouveau in the architecture of Lviv, Ukraine"  (exhibition by Ihor Zhuk in the Ukrainian Museum, New York)
• Олесь Нога, Іван Левинський: художник, архітектор, промисловець, педаґоґ, громадський діяч (Львів: Основа, 1993).
• Іван Олексин, Життя і діяльність Івана Левинського: Іван Левинський, його життя та праця (Львів: Аґрономічно-технічне товариство “Праця”, 1934), 9-22.
• ІгорЖук, Іван Левинський, архітектор-будівничийЛьвова, Архітектура України (Київ, 1992).
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