Pstrak, Yaroslav
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Pstrak, Yaroslav [Пстрак, Ярослав], b 24 March 1878 in Hvizdets, Kolomyia county, Galicia, d 16 March 1916 in Kharkiv. Painter and graphic artist. He studied at the Cracow Academy of Arts and the Munich Academy of Arts (1895–9). From 1900 he lived in Lviv and Pokutia. He belonged to the Society for the Advancement of Ruthenian Art in Lviv and took part in its exhibitions. He did paintings with biblical subjects, such as Christ on the Mount of Olives (1900), Moses, Last Supper, and Christ with Angels; many portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings, particularly of the Hutsuls, such as Hutsul Girl with a Candle, Quarrier (1904), Vengeance (1907), and On a Summer Day; and historical canvases, such as Cossack with a Captured Janissary and Oleksa Dovbush. He illustrated Ivan Franko’s Zakhar Berkut (1902), Antin Krushelnytsky’s reader (1905), Nikolai Gogol’s Taras Bul'ba (1907), and the satirical magazines (see Humoristic and satiric press) Komar (1900–6), Osa, and Zerkalo (1900–8). A book about Pstrak by Mykhailo Figol was published in Kyiv in 1966.
[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]
