Trush Ivan Ivanovich ( Ukrainian Trush Ivan Іvanovich ) ( January 18, 1869 , in the village of Vysotsko, Lviv region - March 21, 1941 , Lviv ) - Ukrainian impressionist painter , landscape master and portrait painter , art critic and organizer of artistic life in Galicia . The father of athletes Miron and Roman Trush.
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| Date of Birth | January 17, 1869 |
| Place of Birth | Vysotsko Brodovsky district |
| Date of death | March 22, 1941 (72 years) |
| Place of death | Lviv , Ukrainian SSR |
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| Genre | impressionism |
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Biography
1891 - 1897 - studied at the Krakow School of Art under J. Matejko and J. Stanislavsky , in Vienna ( 1894 ) and Munich ( 1897 under A. Ashbe ); while studying in Krakow, he became friends with Vasily Stefanik .
From 1898 in Lviv , where he joined the Ukrainian artistic and social life, he became close to Ivan Franko and began to cooperate with the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society , for which he performed various artistic works (in particular, portraits ). The first solo exhibition of I. Trush took place in 1898 and since then, in fact, every year, he took part in exhibitions of Ukrainian and Polish painters that took place in Kiev, Krakow, Warsaw, London, Vienna, Sofia ... On the initiative of NTSH Eastern Ukraine, where he established contact with artists and cultural figures. Trush made creative trips to the Crimea ( 1901-1904 ), Italy ( 1902 , 1908 ), Egypt and Palestine ( 1912 ). Trush initiated and organized the first creative professional societies in Galicia: “Society for the Development of Russian Art” (in Ukrainian) for the development of Ruska units " (1898) and the" Society of supporters of Ukrainian literature, science and art "( Ukrainian. " The Association of Pryhilnik Ukraine Ukrainian Literature, Science I Pieces " ( 1905 ). In 1905 he took an active part in organizing the First All-Ukrainian Exhibition in Lviv and in the publication (with S. Lyudkevich) first in Ukraine non-art journal Artistic Herald, which was also attended by the Kiev creators. He read public lectures on art history and literature, criticized and published in the pages of the Future, Literary and Scientific Herald, Young Ukraine, Artistic Herald , "Affairs" ( Ukrainian. "Buduchnosti", "Literary-Scientific Bulletin", "Young Ukraine", "Artistic Bulletin", "Dila" , "Ukrainian Observations" ( it. Ukrainische Rundschau (his articles are collected in the book Trush on Art and Literature, K. 1958).
Creativity
Ivan Trush is one of the Ukrainian impressionist artists, an original colorist. His creativity, he initiated the revival of the Galician-Ukrainian painting. Trush is primarily an intimate lyricist. In the numerous picturesque heritage Trush to landscape masterpieces include: "Sunset in the Forest" (1904), "Lonely Pine", "Half-Pits Under the Forest" (1919), "In the Embrace of Snow" (1925), "Haystacks", "Moonlight night over the sea "(1925), cycles" Life of stumps "(1929)," Meadows and Fields "," Flowers "," Sosny "," Clouds "," Dnieper near Kiev "(1910); landscapes of the Crimea, Venice, Egypt, Palestine. Trush also painted landscapes with architectural motifs (Mikhailovsky Cathedral, St. Andrew’s Church in Kiev, T. Shevchenko ’s Tomb, Egyptian Temple, etc.). A stroke of paintings Trush is juicy, the coloring is alive at first, and in later paintings it is toned. Trush created many genre paintings (“Vesnyanki” ( Ukrainian. “Gagіlki” ), “Hutsulka with a Child”, “Playing Trembits” (in Ukrainian, “Trembitar” ), “Prachki”, “Hutsulki at the Church”, “Arabs on the Road "," Arab women "), which are distinguished by their laconic pictorial language and simplicity of composition. Trush created a psychological, academic type gallery of portraits (Ariadne from Dragomanov, the artist’s wife, Cardinal S. Sembratovich, I. Franko , V. Stefanik , Lesia Ukrainka , P. Zhitetskogo, M. Dragomanov , N. Lysenko , self-portrait, etc. .).
The first exhibition of I. Trush took place in Lviv in 1899 , and since then he has often performed solo exhibitions and participated in collective exhibitions of Ukrainian and Polish artists in Lviv , Kiev , Poltava , Krakow , Poznan , Warsaw , as well as in London , Vienna, Sofia . A large retrospective exhibition of his works was held posthumously in Lvov in 1941. The largest collections of works by I. Trush are kept in the Lviv National Museum .
Over the years of his work, Trush painted over six thousand paintings. In the difficult periods for him, he painted 300 works a year.
Works of the master are represented in collections of art museums in Kiev, Transcarpathia, the Dnieper , abroad.
The artistic and memorial museum of the outstanding Ukrainian artist and public figure I. Trush was opened in 1986 in an exquisite two-story villa built in 1910 to the design of the famous architect Alexander Lushpinsky in the Art Nouveau style . In it, the artist lived with his family during the years 1910-1941. The mansion, which is located in Lviv on the street named after Trush, was bequeathed to the National Museum in Lviv by the descendants of the artist for arranging an art memorial museum in it. Since the opening there is a permanent exhibition .
Literature
- Gordinsky S. Trush Ivan // Encyclopedia of Ukraine / V. Kubiyovich . - Paris; New York: Molodev Life, 1954-1989. (in Ukrainian)
- Franco I. Maliunki I. Trush. LNB V. 9. L. 1900;
- Mochulsky M. Ivan Trush. Artistic Bulletin, part 3. L. 1905;
- Khmury V. Ivan Trush. X. 1931;
- Catalog of the posthumous exhibition (from Art. V. Lasovskogo). L. 1941;
- Gornyatkevich D. Ivan Trush. Krakivska Visty, Part 59, 60. Cr. 1943;
- Ostrovsky G. І. І. Trush Naris about life and creativity. K. 1955;
- Nanovsky Y. Ivan Trush. K. 1967;
- Kostyuk S. Ivan Ivanovich Trush. Biblіografichesky pokazchik. L. 1969.
- Igor Sharov, Anatoly Tolstoukhov. Artists of Ukraine: 100 visual names. - K .: Artek, 2007. - p. 398. ISBN 966-505-134-2