Ivan Trush
The Ukrainian impressionist who brought light into Lviv painting.
Born in 1869 in the village of Vysotske in the Brody district. He trained at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts and in Munich, and from 1897 lived in Lviv.
He painted more than Galicia and Crimea: he travelled to Italy, Egypt and Palestine and brought back whole series of landscapes. He left portraits of Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka and Vasyl Stefanyk.
He died in Lviv in 1941.Collection5