Trybushnyi Vitalii

Trybushnyi Vitalii

Havrylo was born in Rostov-on-Don in 1892. When he was three, his family moved to Volyn. He finished one course at the Odesa Society of Visual Arts. He did not manage to fulfill his dream of entering the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts due to the beginning of World War I.

After the war where he participated, he worked as a graphic art teacher at the men’s and women’s higher colleges, men’s gymnasium in Kovel.

He was a draftsman and land surveyor at the District Land Department (until 1939), but teaching was a greater part of his professional life – he taught painting at T. Kostiushka gymnasium, worked at the visual arts studio in 1947, and later – at Lutsk schools No. 1 and 3, at the pedagogical institute and pedagogical vocational college.

He painted all his life. His native Lutsk is in the center of all canvases. Relying on the classics in his art, Ostapenko told a story in the simple language about his time, people and himself as the one who lived here.

Almost all Ostapenko’s works are kept in the funds of the Volyn Museum of Regional Ethnography. They were transferred here in 1972 after the painter’s death.