Mykola Buratschek
Mykola Hryhorowytsch Buratschek ( Ukrainian Микола Григорович Бурачек ; born March 4 jul. / 16th March 1871 greg. In Letychiv , Podolia Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 12. August 1942 in Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian painter of Impressionism , stage , Writer and art historian.
After attending the men's high school in Kamenez-Podolskij , he studied painting in Kiev, then from 1905 to 1910 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Jan Stanisławski . He spent the period from 1910 to 1912 in Paris in the studio of Henri Matisse .
Buratschek was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts from 1917 to 1921 . From 1918 to 1921 he was a teacher at the Kiev Institute of Theater Arts, from 1925 director of the Kharkiv Art Middle School, from 1927 professor at the Kharkiv Art Institute.
He also designed sets for the theaters in Kharkiv and Donetsk .
In 1937 he published his autobiography and in 1939 a monograph on Taras Shevchenko .
Web links
- Biography Mykola Buratschek in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine (English)
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| SURNAME | Buratschek, Mykola |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Бурачек, Микола Григорович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian landscape painter and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Letychiv , Podolia Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1942 |
| Place of death | Kharkiv , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic |