Mykhailo Stepanovych Tkachenko

Mykhailo Stepanovych Tkachenko (18 November 1860, Kharkiv, Russian Empire — 2 January 1916, Sloviansk, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire) — was a Ukrainian painter who painted in an Impressionist style with a Ukrainian flavor.

Biography
He studied art under Dmytro Bezperchy, in 1879 he studied under Pavel Chistyakov at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, and between 1888 and 1892 under Fernand Cormon at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He exhibited in a solo exhibition in Paris in 1906.



Mykhailo Tkachenko was regarded as one of the great Impressionist painters of pre-WWI Paris — his works took inspiration from his native Ukraine.

While living in Paris, Mykhailo Tkachenko visited his homeland on an annual basis. His last visit was in 1915, where he was involved with the restoration of frescoes at the Sviatohirsk Lavra monastery. While underaking the work, he became ill and died. Tkachenko was buried in Kharkiv.

Mykhailo Tkachenko's works are held in museums in Kharkiv, Lviv, St. Petersburg, Paris, Liège, and Toulon.