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Known and Unknown Trush

Exhibition December 13, 2018 − February 24, 2019
National Museum. A. Sheptytsky presents the exhibition "Known and Unknown Trush"dedicated to the 150th birthday of the artist. The exhibition project combines three sections - “Retrospective”, “From wanderings”, “Figures”, which are deployed in the Historical complex (Drahomanov Street, 42) and the main building of the National Museum in Lviv (Svobody Avenue, 20).

The exhibition presents the work of the artist-innovator, who introduced new techniques of working with paints and plein air painting in national art. The landscapes of the master are imbued with romanticism and lyrical and poetic coloring. The gallery of portraits shows the inner world of personalities, contemporaries of Ivan Trush.

Ivan Trush - an outstanding Ukrainian artist, a representative of the new artistic ideology, critic, editor, publisher, organizer and active participant of the cultural and social life of Lviv. The first exhibition of the artist took place in Lviv in 1899. He often performed with solo exhibitions and participated in collective exhibitions of Ukrainian and Polish artists in Lviv, Kiev, Poltava, Krakow, Poznan, Warsaw, as well as in London, Vienna, Sofia. A large retrospective exhibition of his works was held posthumously in Lvov in 1941. The largest collections of works by I. Trush are kept in the Lviv National Museum.