Mykola Burachek

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.

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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.{{cn|date=January 2023}}

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).

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Burachek also worked as a writer and art historian, among his works are:

• Moie zhyttia (My Life, 1937),
• [http://uartlib.org/en/books/yuriy-dujenko-mykola-burachek/ Yuriy Dujenko. Mykola Burachek. Kyiv, Mistectvo, 1967.]
• Velykyi narodnyi khudozhnyk (The Great National Artist, 1939, a monograph on Taras Shevchenko),
• Essays about Oleksander Murashko, Mykola Samokysh, Serhii Vasylkivsky, Mykhailo Zhuk, and other artists.

Image:Burachek-thunderstorm.jpg|Before the Thunderstorm (1929)

Image:Burachek_SummerDay.jpg|Summer Day. The Backyard.

Image:Burachek Reve ta stogne Dn pr shirokii 1.jpg|The Broad Dnieper Roars and Moans (1941)

Image:Burachek An old woman.jpg|An Old Woman.

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• Mykola Burachek at WikiCommons
• [http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/pages/B/U/BurachekMykola.htm Biography of Burachek] - in English

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