Mykola Burachek

Mykola Burachek studied at Kamianets-Podilskyi Boys Gymnasium, Kyiv Drawing School and Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Training under Mykola Pymonenko, Chariton Platonovich Platonov and Jan Stanisławski is recorded. Vasyl Mykolaiovych Hrechenko, Volodymyr Oleksiiovych Hrypak and Mykhailo Oleksandrovych Shaposhnykov are recorded as having studied under Mykola Burachek. The recorded working language is Ukrainian. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape and still life. Employment is recorded with Lysenko Music and Drama School, National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture and Kyiv National I. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Work by Mykola Burachek is recorded in the collections of National Art Museum of Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia Regional Art Museum, Fine Arts Museum Kharkiv, Poltava Art Museum and Nikanor Onatsky Regional Art Museum in Sumy. Distinctions recorded are Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR.

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). His first exhibition was in 1907. • Illustration — 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 1917–1922 he taught at the Ukrainian Academy of Arts in Kiev and then at the Kiev State Art Institute and the Mykola Lysenko Music and Drama School in Kiev. Then he moved to Kharkiv and became the rector of the Kharkiv Art Institute (1925). In 1934, he returned to Kiev and taught at the Kiev State Art Institute. Burachek also worked for theaters as a stage designer. 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. In 1937, he worked with Donetsk theaters. 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). • Illustration — In 2004 Ukrainian Post issued a stamp based on Burachek's 1919 painting of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral

Mykola Burachek worked in painting. His work is associated with Impressionism. He was employed by Lysenko Music and Drama School, National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture, Kyiv National I. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University and Kharkiv Institute of Arts. He belonged to Muzychne tovarystvo imeni Mykoly Leontovycha, Muzahet and Association of Revolutionary Art of Ukraine.

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