The ethnic and the nationalist on Lviv portraits 1900-1939

This article explores the visual manifestations of the ethnic and the nationalist aspects on Lviv portraits (oil paintings and drawings) during the first half of the 20th century. The article focuses on portraits by Lviv based artists of Ukrainian, Jewish, and Polish-Armenian descent such as Olexa Novakivsky, Zygmunt Menkes, and Antoni Stefanowicz. The article proves the presence of a wide range of ethnic and nationalist visual elements represented through the portraits’ style, symbols, and attributes