Yustyn Pigulyak

For his senior "thesis" painting, he presented a copy of The Three Graces by Rubens, that was judged to be equal in technique to the original.

His wages were insufficient to support a large family, so he devoted much of his personal time to painting portraits.

In 1918, he supported the movement to unite Northern Bukovina with the West Ukrainian People's Republic, rather than have it become part of Romania.

The subsequent occupation by Romania, and the persecution of his friends and family, caused his already frail health to deteriorate and he died in 1919.

[2] In 1940, many of his paintings on display at the People's House [uk] in Lviv were lost when the collection was liquidated and transferred to other institutions.