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Ivan Ivanovych Trush (, ; 18 January 1869 – 21 March 1941) was a Ukrainian Impressionism painter, a master of landscape and portraiture, an art critic, and active community patron of arts in Galicia or Halychyna – a historical region in western Ukraine. He was a son in law of Mykhailo Drahomanov.
Trush's travels took him to Italy, Egypt, and Palestine. When back at home, Trush founded and organized the first professional art societies in Galicia, the Society for the Development of Rus' Art (1898), the Society of Friends of Ukrainian Art (1905) and its first exhibition of Ukrainian artists, which drew participation from Kyiv-based artists.
The painter's activism, vast and dynamic creative output, numbered over 6,000 works, inspired a rebirth of painting in Galicia.
Trush died in Lviv in 1941.
In his lifetime, Trush created a multitude of portraits of famous Ukrainians. Among these are writers Vasyl Stefanyk and Ivan Franko, poet Lesya Ukrainka, political theorist Mykhailo Drahomanov, composer Mykola Lysenko, and linguist P. Zhytetskyi.Kasyan, Lyudmyla. Ivan Trush - a painter . Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies (Ukrainoznavstva). Last accessed: January, 2008.
His portraits include depiction of Kateryna Hrushevska, a portrait known as "Ukrainian infanta" in art-historical commentary.
In the late 1930s, Ivan Trush's painting "Landscape from the outskirts of Naples" was presented to the National Museum in Kraków. During the Second World War, more than 120 paintings, including this work by I. Trush, disappeared from the museum without a trace. These paintings were included in the database of war losses of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland. In March 2018, this painting and two other works by Polish masters appeared in the list of lots of one of the Warsaw auctions. This finding indicates that the paintings stolen by the Germans probably never left the country, but became objects of looting and theft in post-war Poland.
In December 2022 the Mikhail Prishvin street in Kyiv was renamed to Ivan Trush street.
Contributions to arts
Ivan Trush, one of the most prominent Ukrainian impressionists, began his work with the rebirth of Galician painting. He – alongside such figures as ethnographers Volodymyr Hnatyuk and Filaret Kolessa, poet Ivan Franko, the museum's first director Illarion Svientsitsky – played a leading role in the establishment of the Lviv National Museum. The Lviv National Museum Of Ukrainian Art . Lviv Best Portal using material from Lviv Study. Handbook./Compiler group manager N.Vynnytska.-Lviv:AHIL, 2003.- 52p.
Legacy
Trush Street in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk is named after him. It connects the city Market Square with Mickewicz Square.
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Categories: 1869 Births, 1941 Deaths, Burials At Lychakiv Cemetery, Ukrainian Impressionist Painters, Ukrainian Ethnographers, Jan Matejko Academy Of Fine Arts Alumni, People From Lviv Oblast, Painters From Lviv, Members Of The Shevchenko Scientific Society, Ukrainians In Austria-hungary, Artists From The Kingdom Of Galicia And Lodomeria, Painters From Austria-hungary
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