Vasyl Krychevsky was born in the village of Vorozhba, near
Lebedyn, to a family of eight children where he was the eldest. His father Hryhoriy Yakymovych Krychevsky was a county state doctor of
Jewish descent who converted to
Orthodox Christianity and married a Ukrainian woman, Praskovia Hryhorivna. ,
Oleksandr Murashko,
Fedir Krychevsky,
Mykhailo Hrushevsky,
Ivan Steshenko,
Mykola Burachek, standing:
Heorhiy Narbut, Vasyl Krychevsky,
Mykhailo Boychuk. Krychevsky had little formal education, but a deep interest in
Ukrainian folklore and
art history. During the
First World War, he was one of the founders and rectors of the
Ukrainian State Academy of Arts. In the 1920s he taught at the Kyiv Institute of Plastic Arts, the
Kyiv Architectural Institute. Among the students –
Joseph Karakis, who studied from Krychevsky "Interior of residential and public buildings" as well as painting techniques. He then taught at the
Odesa Art School and served in the architectural department of the Kiev State Art Institute until 1941. Krychevsky moved to
Lviv in 1943 where he was appointed a
rector of a new Ukrainian art school, which eventually became the
Lviv National Academy of Arts. After the
World War II, he lived briefly in
Paris before immigrating to
South America in 1948. He died in
Caracas, the capital of
Venezuela on November 15, 1952. ==Artistic career==