Stakhovsky, Kostiantyn

Stakhovsky, Kostiantyn [Стаховський, Костянтин; Staxovs'kyj, Kostjantyn], b 5 May 1882 in Stetkivtsi, Starokostiantyniv county, Volhynia gubernia, d 11 May 1959 in Prague. Sculptor and ceramicist; brother of Mykola Stakhovsky. He studied art in Warsaw, Paris, Saint Petersburg, Munich, and Berlin. An interwar émigré, in 1923 he settled in Prague, where he taught at the Ukrainian Studio of Plastic Arts. A specialist in the sculpture of bronze, clay, and plaster animals and busts, he displayed his works in London (1918–19) and in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d’Automne (1919–22).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]