The master of portraits and of genre. Born in the city of Ternopil. In 1904 – 1909 he studied at Cracow Academy of arts. While still a student, for the drawings and pictorial sketches received several cash awards and received recognition for their work presented at an art exhibition in 1907. He improved his knowledge in Vienna, and later studied at the workshop of the famous artist I. Brandt. With the beginning of the First world war in the rank of Austrian officers participated in the military campaign on the Italian front, and later moved to the Ukrainian Galician Army. After the war he lived in Italy, then in Transcarpathia – Berehovo, 1929 – in Uzhgorod. In Transcarpathia has combined teaching with art activities. Engaged in Church murals, painted Church. Archangel Michael in the village of Tovste in the Ternopil region. In 1942 he went to Germany, lived and worked in Platting in Bavaria. Creative way of Vatika was interrupted by two wars, many works of the artist disappeared without a trace. Some of the surviving works – portraits, landscapes, still lifes, figure compositions and icons, painted in oil, pastel, watercolor, ink, are in the museums of Lviv, Prague, Munich and Ternopil. Posthumous exhibitions of the artist took place in new York and Philadelphia in 1974. In July 2007, the Lviv national Museum hosted the exhibition for the 120th anniversary of the birthday of the artist.