17] 1887, Otrocz, — 5 January 1970, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian art critic and artist.
[2] Born 17 (29 September) in 1887, the village Otrocz Lublin province.
In 1926–1930 he was the chairman of the Supreme Cinema Repertory Commission in the People's Commissariat of Education of the Ukrainian SSR.
In 1930–1932 he headed the Kyiv Branch of the State Publishing House of Ukraine.
From 1943 to 1944 he taught at the Central Asian State University in Tashkent.