Nikolai Ivanovitch (in Ukrainian: Mykola) Ivasiuk ( 1865, the village of Zastavna, Bukovina, then Austrian Empire - 1937 in Kiev, Soviet Union) is important Ukrainian and Soviet painter.

Nikolai Ivasiuk was born in the village of Zastavna in Bukovina (now a town and the district center of Chernivtsi oblast, Ukraine) in a family of a Carpenter.

In 1884 Nikolai entered Chernivtsi high real school, where Professor of drawing and painting was Justin Pihulyak, who noticed the young man the gift of painting, and then helped enroll him in the Vienna Academy of art.

Later he studied in Munich from Ivasyuk Professor Alexander Linzen-Meyer. In August 1885 Ivasyuk was a participant in the wanderings of student youth of Ternopil region.

In 1893 year N. Ivasyuk met in Munich with Ilya Repin. Nicholai showed him the first sketch of his painting "entrance of Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Kiev".Back in the year 1897 from abroad to Bukovina, Ivasyuk devoted himself to art, social and pedagogical activities. He worked as a teacher of drawing and painting in the Chernivtsi real school, arranged several exhibitions of his works. In 1899 year along with J. Piguljak he established the first school of drawing in Bukovina "for talented but poor young people".Not once visited Ivasiuk the village Okno, in the Manor of Vladislav Fedoróvich, where he painted portraits of members of his family.

After the overthrow of the autocracy Ivasyuk moved to Kiev, and from 1919 onwards he lived then in Lviv, Chernivtsi. At the invitation of the Government of the Ukrainian SSR in late 1926 year Ivasyuk moved with his family to take up permanent residence in Kiev. He proposed the establishment of a number of paintings on the theme of the revolutionary movement in Ukraine.

In July 1937 year Ivasyuk was wrongly arrested by the Stalin NKVD. Shot November 25, 1937.

Works of Ivasyuk were devoted to historical themes:

"The entry of Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Kiev (1892-1932)"Bohdan Khmelnytsky under Zboriv (1892), "The battle of Chocim (1903)"Kubanskie kazaki in Lviv" (1917), Ivan Bohun at the battle of berestechko "(1919)

Also created many genre paintings of Ukrainian subjects ("near the well" (1901), "Mother" (1906), "Guculka under the tree") and portraits of figures of Ukrainian culture: Yuri Fedkovych, t.Shevchenko, i.Franko.In the year 1919, as an artist with the highest international authority, the Government of UNR directory commissioned Ivasjuku to create sketches for the stamps of the UPR. N. Ivasyuk performed drawings of eight of 14 marks and made a general appearance of a series called "Vienna" series. Printing marks May 31, 1921 year was completed, however, in connection with the displacement of troops outside Ukraine Directory stamps mail application.

Literature: in German: artist lexicon by Thieme/Becker, Leipzig, 1999; in Russian and Ukrainian: Золотоверхова І. І. Український радянський кіноплакат 20—30-х років. — К., 1983. — С. 108.Івасюк Микола Іванович // Довідник з історії України / За ред. І. З. Підкови, Р. М. Шуста; Інст. історичних досліджень Львівського нац. унів. ім. Івана Франка. — Київ: Генеза, 2001. — ISBN 966-504-439-7. (укр.) (Проверено 24 августа 2009)Кулаков И. Почтовая марка Украины // Зеркало недели. — 1997. — № 9 (126). — 1—6 марта.Довідник з історії України: В 3 т. / За ред. І. Підкови та Р. Шуста. — К.: Генеза, 1995, 1999. (укр.)Енциклопедія українознавства: В 10 т. / Головний редактор Володимир Кубійович. — Париж, Нью-Йорк: Молоде Життя, 1954—1989. (укр.)Тернопільський енциклопедичний словник: Т. І. — Тернопіль: Збруч, 2004. (укр.)

Insription: signed in Ukrainian: "M.(Mykola) Ivasiuk" and dated 1924.

Technique: oil on cardboard, original period frame.

Measurements: w 16 3/8" 8 5/8" (41,5 x 22 cm ), framed w 18 3/8" x h 10 1/2" (46,5 x 26,5 cm ).

Condition : in very good condition.