1877 – 1936
He received his primary art education at the Kyiv Drawing School of M. Murashko. He graduated from the Krakow Academy of Arts (1896–1903).
In 1906, together with F. Krasytskyi and O. Slastion, he founded the magazine “Hornet”, where he published caricatures. In 1908–1918 he was an artist (since 1912 – chief artist) of the M. Sadovskyi Theater in Kyiv.
He designed illustrations for Kotlyarevskyi’s poem “Aeneid” and Hlibov’s fables.
In 1922–1923 he was an artist of the Ukrainian Drama Theater named after M. Zankovetska in Kyiv. He was engaged in book graphics, painted portraits and landscapes. In 1922 he designed the performance “Haidamaky” staged by Les Kurbas.