Mykola Burachek

Mykola Burachek
Burachek_N, Public domain

(1871–1942) Ukrainian impressionist painter (1871-1942)

Mykola Burachek (1871–1942) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Mykola Burachek belongs to the chapter ‘The avant-garde’ in this site’s history of art.

Mykola Burachek was born in Letychiv and died in Kharkiv. Mykola Burachek trained at Kamianets-Podilskyi Boys Gymnasium, Kyiv Drawing School, and Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. The teachers included Mykola Pymonenko and Chariton Platonovich Platonov. Wikidata associates Mykola Burachek with Impressionism. Mykola Burachek became a member of Muzychne tovarystvo imeni Mykoly Leontovycha and Muzahet. Mykola Burachek was awarded Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR. The students included Vasyl Mykolaiovych Hrechenko, Volodymyr Oleksiiovych Hrypak, Mykhailo Oleksandrovych Shaposhnykov, and Mykola Petrovych Ohnivtsev.

The works belong mainly to the genres landscape painting and still life. The catalogue has one work by Mykola Burachek with a free image. The dated work is from 1941. National Museum Тaras Shevchenko holds at least one work by Mykola Burachek.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts, Clark Greenwood Voorhees, Louis Soutter, Elena Klokacheva, and Leo von könig.