oil, cardboard, 16.5 x 21 cm,
Signed l.d.: I. Trusz.
Painter, outstanding landscape painter. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under I. Jabłoński, L. Loeffler, J. Unierzyski, W. Łuszczkiewicz, L. Wyczółkowski and J. Stanisławski (1891-1897); he supplemented his studies in Munich under Anton Ažbè. In 1897 he settled in Lviv. On his initiative, the Society for the Development of Russian Art was founded in Lviv that year. He exhibited at the Lviv and Krakow TPSP, and devoted much space to art journalism. He traveled frequently to the Hutsul region, visited Vienna and Italy, and in 1912 traveled to Egypt and Palestine. He traveled to Crimea several times, and in 1906 presented Crimean landscapes at a group exhibition at the Lviv TPSP. He painted landscape cycles from the Transnistria region, motifs of meadows and fields, flowers, trees, scenes from the lives of the Hutsul people, and portrayed well-known figures from Ukrainian socio-cultural circles.
(Lit.: I. Zawalin, T. Lozinskiy, O. Sidor "Ivan Trush," Printing Company "Oranta," Lviv, Kyiv, 2005; "Sunny Chords in Ivan Trush's Palette. Works from the collection of the Andrei Sheptytskyi National Museum in Lviv," author of the catalog Oksana Bil, State Art Gallery, Sopot, 2011).
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