Mykola Burachek
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Letychiv
Letychiv is a town in the eastern part of Khmelnytskyi Oblast of western Ukraine. 51 km from Khmelnytskyi and 33 km from the railway station Derazhnya. Administrative center since Tsarist times, formerly in Podolia Province. Population: 11,081 inhabitants . There are brickworks, dairy,...
, Podillia Guberniya (now Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Khmelnytskyi Oblast is an oblast of western Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Khmelnytskyi.The current estimated population is around 1,401,140 .-Geography:...
) — August 12, 1942, Kharkiv
Kharkiv
Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...
) was a Ukrainian
Ukraine
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Impressionist
Impressionism
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painter
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and pedagogue.
Burachek studied in Kiev
Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
School of Drawing (late 1890s) and from Jan Stanisławski at the Kraków
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Academy of Fine Arts (1905–1910). He also studied at Paris
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in the studio of Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
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(1910–1911). His first exhibition was in 1907.
In 1917–1922 he taught at the Ukrainian Academy of Arts in Kiev and then at the Kiev State Art Institute and the Mykola Lysenko Music and Drama School
National University of Theatre, Film and TV in Kiev
The National University of Theatre, Film and TV of Karpenko-Kary is a theatrical national university in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. It is a multidisciplinary institution of artistic education.-History:...
in Kiev. Then he moved to Kharkiv
Kharkiv
Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...
and became the rector
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of the Kharkiv Art Institute (1925). In 1934 he returned to Kiev and taught at the Kiev State Art Institute.
Burachek also worked for theaters as a stage designer. In 1934 he worked for the Kharkiv theaters designing stages for the plays Marusia Churai
Marusia Churai
Maria or Marusia Churai was a semi-mythical Ukrainian Baroque composer, poet, and singer. She has become a recurrent motif in Ukrainian literature and the songs ascribed to her are widely performed in Ukraine....
by Ivan Mykytenko and Set Your Heart Free by Marko Kropyvnytsky. In 1937 he worked with Donetsk
Donetsk
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theaters.
A virtuoso landscape painter, he painted Impressionist
Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...
landscapes devoted to the Ukrainian themes such as Morning on the Dnieper (1934), Apple Trees in Bloom (1936), and The Broad Dnieper Roars and Moans (1941).
Writings
Burachek also worked as a writer and art historian, among his works are:- Moie zhyttia (My Life, 1937),
- Velykyi narodnyi khudozhnyk (The Great National Artist, 1939), a monograph on Taras ShevchenkoTaras ShevchenkoTaras Hryhorovych Shevchenko -Life:Born into a serf family of Hryhoriy Ivanovych Shevchenko and Kateryna Yakymivna Shevchenko in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire Shevchenko was orphaned at the age of eleven...
), - Essays about Oleksander Murashko, Mykola SamokyshMykola SamokyshMykola Samokysh or Nikolai Samokish ; 1860, Nizhyn, Ukraine — 1944, Simferopol, Crimea) was a Ukrainian artist of the war art genre who worked in Russian Empire and the USSR. In 1913 he became a member of Imperial Academy of Arts. In 1941 Samokysh was awarded the Stalin Prize.- Reference : Самокиш...
, Serhii VasylkivskySerhii VasylkivskySerhii Vasylkivsky was one of the most prolific Ukrainian artists of the pre-revolutionary period and an expert on Ukrainian ornamentation and folk art.- Biography :...
, Mykhailo Zhuk, and other artists.
External links
- Biography of Burachek - in English