Mykola Murashko

Portrait of Mykola Ivanovich Murashko by Ilia Repin

Mykola Ivanovych Murashko (Ukrainian: Микола Іванович Мурашко); also known as Nikolay Murashko (20 May 1844 – 22 September 1909) was a Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, and a pedagogue. Uncle of the painter Oleksandr Murashko.

Life and career

Mykola Murashko received his education in the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. After graduating from the Academy in 1868 he came to Kyiv to work as a secondary-school art teacher. In 1875 he founded the Kyiv Drawing School, an influential art establishment in Russian-ruled Ukraine. He was the director of the School until 1901.

Murashko was supportive of the realism of the Peredvizhniki and criticized modernism.

As an artist he is known for his landscapes (e.g. Autumn, Above the Dnieper, View of the Dnieper), portraits (e.g. of Nikolai Ge), including series of lithograph portraits (e.g. of Taras Shevchenko, Ilia Repin, Petro Mohyla), and book illustrations (in particular, for the first Ukrainian edition of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales (1873)).

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  Ukrainian landscape (1896)

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  Portrait of Alexander Kochubey (1860s)

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  Illustration for the tale "Fir Tree" (1873)

References

• Murashko, Mykola I., Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine, retrieved January 22, 2014.