The sculptural works of Tomasz Oskar Sosnowski (1812-1886), a Polish artist born in Novomalyn in Volhynia (modern Ukraine), have been of no interest to both Ukrainian historians and art historians for a long time. The first scholarly and popular articles concerning the artist were published as recently as the 1990s by Yaroslava Bondarchuk. However, neither she nor other researchers knew Sosnowski's date of birth. In 2012, Mykola Bendiuk, based on Igor Teslenko's discovery, published a booklet claiming the date of birth was December 1812. However, Bendiuk's disclosure contains a whole series of inaccuracies and factual errors caused by its author's overly liberal interpretation of unverified information. On the other hand, in 2015 and 2022 Valery Vojtovych, a painter and writer, self-published two editions of his book on Sosnowski. These are the first such comprehensive and significant books in Ukrainian dedicated entirely to the artist. Unfortunately, these (especially the first) are characterized by extreme nationalism, while the factual and interpretative contents are more than unreliable and misleading to the reader. Nevertheless, the first step has been taken, and perhaps soon Ukrainian authors will be encouraged to become more objective when writing about Polish artists born on the territory of present-day Ukraine.
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"Biografistyka Pedagogiczna" received funding for the years 2022-2024 from the funds of the Minister of Education and Science under the programme „Rozwój Czasopism Naukowych”.
Project duration: 2023-2024.
The amount of co-financing is 65 992,00 PLN
Contract number: RCN/SP/0434/2021/1