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Kulchytska Olena
(1877-1967) Ukrainian artist, illustrator, teacher. Born in Berezhany. For several months she attended the Art and Industrial School, where she received her first art education. Later she studied at the private art school of S. Batovsky-Kachor and R. Bratkovsky. She graduated from the Vienna Academy of Arts. Since 1939 she worked at the Lviv Museum named after T. Shevchenko. Since 1940 she headed the folk art department of the Lviv Ethnographic Museum. She taught graphics at the Polytechnic Institute. In 1955 she launched a campaign to protect the closure of the Lviv Art School. In 1976 she became a laureate of the State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR named after T. G. Shevchenko. She died in Lviv.