Mykola Burachek

Mykola Burachek or Buraček (Ukrainian: Микола Бурачек) (March 16, 1871 in Letychiv, Podillia Guberniya (now Khmelnytskyi Oblast) – August 12, 1942, in Kharkiv), was a Ukrainian Impressionist painter and pedagogue.

Burachek studied at the Kyiv School of Drawing with Khariton Platonov (late 1890s) and with Jan Stanisławski at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts (1905–1910).

He also studied in Paris, in the studio of Henri Matisse (1910–1911).

In 1934, he worked for the Kharkiv theaters, designing stages for the plays Marusia Churai by Ivan Mykytenko and Set Your Heart Free by Marko Kropyvnytsky.

[citation needed] A virtuoso landscape painter, he painted Impressionist landscapes devoted to the Ukrainian themes such as Morning on the Dnieper (1934), Apple Trees in Bloom (1936), and The Broad Dnieper Roars and Moans (1941).

Self-portrait
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Founders of the Ukrainian academy of arts, 1917. From left, sitting: Abram Manevich , Oleksandr Murashko , Fedir Krychevsky , Mykhailo Hrushevsky , Ivan Steshenko , Mykola Burachek, standing: Heorhiy Narbut , Vasyl Krychevsky , Mykhailo Boychuk .
In 2004 Ukrainian Post issued a stamp based on Burachek's 1919 painting of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral