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Ivan Ivanovich Trush Edit Profile

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Ivan Trush was a Ukrainian impressionist painter, a master of landscape and portraiture, an art critic, and active community patron of arts in Galicia or Halychyna - a historical region in western Ukraine.

Background

TRUSH, Ivan was born on January 17, 1869 in village Vysotskoye, now L’vov Oblast. Son of a peasant.

Education

1891-1897 studied under Ya. Stanislavskiy at Cracow Academy of Arts.

Career

He was a son in law of Mykhailo Drahomanov. His studies were undertaken between 1891-1897 at the Krakow Academy of Art under January Stanisławski and Leon Wyczółkowski. Starting from 1898, Trush lived and worked in Lviv where he became acquainted with Ivan Franko, a poet and writer

In 1899, his first art exhibit was presented to the public in Lviv.

lieutenant was at this time that Trush became involved with the Shevchenko Scientific Society, for which he completed "a number of works of art, primarily portraits". Trush"s travels took him to Italy, Egypt, and Palestine.

The painter"s activism, vast and dynamic creative output, numbered over 6,000 works, inspired a rebirth of painting in Galicia. Trush died in Lviv in 1941.

Ivan Trush - alongside such figures as ethnographers Volodymyr Hnatyuk, Filaret Kolessa, poet Ivan Franko, the museum"s first director Illarion Svientsitsky - played a leading role in the establishment of the Lviv National Museum.

In his lifetime, Trush created a multitude of portraits of famous Ukrainians. Among these are writers Vasyl Stefanyk and Ivan Franko, poet Lesya Ukrainka, political theorist Mykhailo Drahomanov, composer Mykola Lysenko, and linguist P. Zhytetskyi to name just a few. One of the streets in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk is named after him.

lieutenant connects the city Market Square with the Mickewicz Square.