Ivan Ivanovych Trush (, ; 18 January 1869 – 21 March 1941) was a Ukrainian

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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

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. He was a son in law of

Mykhailo Drahomanov Mykhailo Petrovych Drahomanov (; 18 September 1841 – 2 July 1895) was a Ukrainian intellectual and public figure. As an academic, Drahomanov was an economist, historian, philosopher, and ethnographer, while as a public intellectual he was a ...

Biography

Trush was born in 1869 in Vysotsko (today in

Zolochiv Raion Zolochiv Raion () is a raion (district) in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Zolochiv. Population: It was established in 1939. On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the numbe ...

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). His studies were undertaken between 1891 and 1897 at the Kraków Academy of Art under Jan Stanisławski and

Leon Wyczółkowski Leon Jan Wyczółkowski (; 11 April 1852 – 27 December 1936) was a Polish painter and educator who was one of the leading painters of the Young Poland movement, as well as the principal representative of Polish Realism (arts), Realism in art of ...

. Trush also studied in

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(1894) and in

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(1897).''Spirit of Ukraine: 500 Years of Painting.'' Winnipeg Art Gallery. 1991, pg. 252 . Starting from 1898, Trush lived and worked in

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where he became acquainted with

Ivan Franko Ivan Yakovych Franko (, ; 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first d ...

, a poet and writer. In 1899, his first art exhibit was presented to the public in Lviv. It was at this time that Trush became involved with the

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, for which he completed "a number of works of art, primarily portraits". Trush's travels took him to

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, and

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. When back at home, Trush founded and organized the first professional art societies in Galicia, the ''Society for the Development of Rus' Art'' (1898), the ''Society of Friends of Ukrainian Art'' (1905) and its first exhibition of Ukrainian artists, which drew participation from Kyiv-based artists. The painter's activism, vast and dynamic creative output, numbered over 6,000 works, inspired a rebirth of painting in Galicia. Trush died in

in 1941.

Contributions to arts

Ivan Trush, one of the most prominent Ukrainian impressionists, began his work with the rebirth of Galician painting. He – alongside such figures as ethnographers Volodymyr Hnatyuk and

Filaret Kolessa Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa (; 17 July 18713 March 1947) was a List of Ukrainian composers, Ukrainian composer, ethnographer, folklorist, musicologist and literary critic. He was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society from 1909, from 1 ...

, poet

, 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 Vasyl Semenovych Stefanyk (; May 14, 1871 – December 7, 1936) was an influential Ukrainian modernist writer and political activist. He was a member of the Austrian parliament from 1908 to 1918. Biography Early years Vasyl Stefanyk was ...

and Ivan Franko, poet

Lesya Ukrainka Lesya Ukrainka (, ; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, ; – ) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active political, civil, and feminist activist. Among her best-known works are ...

, political theorist

, composer

Mykola Lysenko Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko (; 22 March 1842 – 6 November 1912) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic period. In his time he was the central figure of Ukrainian music, with an ''oeuvre'' tha ...

, and linguist P. Zhytetskyi. In the late 1930s, Ivan Trush's painting "Landscape from the outskirts of Naples" was presented to the National Museum in Kraków. During the Second World War, more than 120 paintings, including this work by I. Trush, disappeared from the museum without a trace. These paintings were included in the database of war losses of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland. In March 2018, this painting and two other works by Polish masters appeared in the list of lots of one of the Warsaw auctions. This finding indicates that the paintings stolen by the Germans probably never left the country, but became objects of looting and theft in post-war Poland.

Legacy

One of the streets in the city of

Ivano-Frankivsk Ivano-Frankivsk (, ), formerly Stanyslaviv, Stanislav and Stanisławów, is a city in western Ukraine. It serves as the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast as well as Ivano-Frankivsk Raion within the oblast. Ivano-Frankivsk also host ...

is named after him. It connects the city Market Square with Mickewicz Square. In December 2022 the

Mikhail Prishvin Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin (; 4 February 1873 – 16 January 1954) was a Russian and Soviet novelist, prose writer and publicist. Prishvin himself defined his place in literature this way: " Rozanov is the afterword of Russian literature, and I ...

street in

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was renamed to Ivan Trush street.

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A set of postcards by Ivan Trush
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Trush, Ivan 1869 births 1941 deaths Burials at Lychakiv Cemetery Ukrainian Impressionist painters Ukrainian ethnographers Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts alumni People from Lviv Oblast Artists from Lviv Members of the Shevchenko Scientific Society Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians Artists from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Painters from Austria-Hungary

Biography

Contributions to arts

Legacy

See also

References

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