Master of Modernism. Fedir Krychevskyi founded the school of Ukrainian painting, became the first rector of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts, and his works were exhibited at the Venice Biennale. He experimented and gained recognition from Copenhagen to America. Fedir Krychevskyi died of starvation on July 30, 1947, at his easel, not breaking his convictions until the end and did not collaborate with the regime.