HalynaMyroslava“Hope“/ ГалинаМирослава “Надiя“

Thanks to Ukrainian painter and graphic artist Ivan Dryapachenko (Іван Дряпаченко). Ivan Dryapachenko was born on 16 August,1881, in a village Vasilievka (five miles from Kozel’schyna). The village was founded in the middle of XVIII century by Kapnists. As early as age 13, thanks to the Kapnists a talented country boy began to study at the famous Kyiv Drawing School (1894-96.) Led by artist and educator N.I. Murashko. At school, apart I.K. Dryapachenko were educated N.K. Pimonenko and A.A. Murashko, S. P. Kostenko, G.K. Dyadchenko and L. S. Izhakevich and G.P. Svetlitsky, M. I. Zhuk, V.D. Zamirailo, A.A. Kurennoy, F.S. Krasitsky. After Kiev, Ivan Dryapachenko continued his education at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and then in the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts where his teacher was Ilya Repin who remembered Ivan when he had gone to Ukraine to grow information for his “Zaporozhtsi are writing a letter to the Sultan“. He was famous as a portrait artist. In 1912-1913 he went to Florence as a perspective artist thanks to . He was also in Germany, France,Spain. Since 1918 the artist permanently settled near Kozel’schyna in his native Vasilievka. Now the entire history of Ukraine passes before his eyes through the prism of the countryside, including the bloody civil war. He is the author of paintings on mythological and genre subjects, many landscapes and most of his works were destroyed during the World War II .The works of Ivan Kirillovich Dryapachenko exhibited in the museums of Poltava, Donetsk, Kharkov and St. Petersburg. He died at the age of 55 on the 24 December, 1936 in his native village which he loved a lot. __________________ Halyna Myroslava “Hope“ Галина Мирослава “Надія“