Mykola Burachek or Buraček () (March 16, 1871 in

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Guberniya (now

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) – August 12, 1942, in

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), was a Ukrainian

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and

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Biography

Burachek studied at the

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School of Drawing with Khariton Platonov (late 1890s) and with Jan Stanisławski at the

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(1905–1910). He also studied in

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, in the studio of

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(1910–1911). His first exhibition was in 1907. Founders of the Ukrainian academy of arts

In 1917–1922 he taught at the

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in Kiev and then at the Kiev State Art Institute and the Mykola Lysenko Music and Drama School in Kiev. Then he moved to

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and became the rector 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

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. In 1934, he worked for the Kharkiv theaters, designing stages for the plays ''

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'' by

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and ''Set Your Heart Free'' by

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. In 1937, he worked with

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theaters. A virtuoso landscape painter, he painted

landscapes devoted to the Ukrainian themes such as ''Morning on the

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'' (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),
Yuriy Dujenko. Mykola Burachek. Kyiv, Mistectvo, 1967.
* ''Velykyi narodnyi khudozhnyk'' (''The Great National Artist'', 1939, a monograph on

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), * Essays about

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Mykola Samokysh Nikolay Semyonovich Samokish (; ; 25 October 1860, Nezhin, Government of Chernigov, Russian Empire – 18 January 1944, Simferopol, Russian SFSR, USSR) was a Ukrainian and Soviet painter and illustrator of Ukrainian Cossack descent who speciali ...

Serhii Vasylkivsky Serhii Ivanovych Vasylkivsky (, ; ; October 19, 1854 — October 7, 1917) was one of the most prolific Ukrainian artists of the pre-revolutionary period and an expert on Ukrainian ornamentation and folk art. Biography Vasylkivsky grew up in ...

, Mykhailo Zhuk, and other artists.

Selected paintings

Image:Burachek-thunderstorm.jpg, ''Before the Thunderstorm'' (1929) Image:Burachek_SummerDay.jpg, ''Summer Day. The Backyard.'' Image:Burachek Reve ta stogne Dn pr shirokii 1.jpg, ''The Broad Dnieper Roars and Moans'' (1941) Image:Burachek An old woman.jpg, ''An Old Woman.''

References

External links

* Mykola Burachek at WikiCommons
Biography of Burachek
- in English 1871 births 1942 deaths People from Letychiv 20th-century Ukrainian painters 20th-century Ukrainian male artists Ukrainian Impressionist painters Painters from the Russian Empire Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts alumni Academic staff of the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture Ukrainian male painters {{Ukraine-painter-stub