Lviv vs. Berlin: charming villas of Impressionist painters
<p>Have you ever seen a painter’s studio? Usually, we watch art in museums, isolated from where the artist created it. Today, I’ll tell you about two Impressionists who lived on the edge of the 19–20th centuries 900 km away from each other — in Lviv, Ukraine, and Berlin, Germany. Since I know both cities pretty well, I couldn’t overlook this surprising historical parallel.</p>
<h1>Ivan Trush and his Art Nouveau villa near Sand Lakes</h1>
<p><strong>Ivan Trush (1869–1941)</strong> was a Ukrainian painter, a master of landscape and portraiture, an art critic, and an active community patron of arts in Halychyna <em>(Galicia)</em> — a historical region in the west of Ukraine. He lived in turbulent times when Ukrainian culture fought for survival, trapped between the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires.</p>
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