Skrutok, Oleksa or Skrutka [Скруток or Скрутка, Олекса], b 1861 in Peremyshl, Galicia, d 1914. Painter. After graduating from the Cracow School of Fine Arts (1891) he studied in Munich and then worked in Lviv and Peremyshl. From 1898 he belonged to the Society for the Advancement of Ruthenian Art in Lviv and took part in its exhibitions. He painted portraits (eg, of Vasyl Nahirny [1912]); landscapes, such as Evening (1893), In the Meadow (1893), Silence (1894), and Landscape with a Pond (1895); genre paintings, such as Dutch Fisherman (1892) and Old Woman in a Window (1898); iconostases; icons and religious paintings, such as Resurrection of Lazarus (1900); and historical paintings depicting the Cossack period.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]