Nikifor, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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1895-1968 Ukrainien artist
Date of Birth: 21-May-1895
Place of Birth: Krynica-Zdrój, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Date of Death: 10-Oct-1968
Profession: painter
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Nikifor
- Nikifor (21 May 1895, Krynica, Austria-Hungary – 10 October 1968, Folusz, Poland), also known as Nikifor Krynicki, born as Epifaniy Drovnyak (Epifaniusz Drowniak)1, was a Lemko naïve painter.
- Nikifor painted over 40,000 pictures – on sheets of paper, pages of notebooks, cigarette cartons, and even on scraps of paper glued together.
- The topics of his art include self-portraits and panoramas of Krynica, with its spas and Orthodox and Catholic churches.
- Underestimated for most of his life, in his late days he became famous as a naïve painter.
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