Oleksandr Murashko

His stepfather, Oleksandr Ivanovych Murashko, had an icon-painting workshop and worked on the interior of St Volodymyr's Cathedral.

[3] In 1901, he travelled abroad, visiting Germany, where he studied with Anton Ažbe in Munich,[3] Italy, and France, where he was greatly influenced.

[4] His painting Carousel won the gold medal at the Munich Exposition in 1909, and he exhibited in Venice, Rome, Amsterdam, Berlin, Cologne, and Düsseldorf.

In 1913, he opened his own studio in the Ginsburg skyscraper,[1][5] where many young Jewish artists were trained, including Mark Epstein.

[9] He founded the Association of Kyiv Artists in 1916[10] and the following year co-founded the Ukrainian State Academy of Arts.