Born in the village of Granica Dnipropetrovsk region. Started training in the workshop by Valentin Serov in St. Petersburg, continued in St. Petersburg Academy of arts class Repin. During the First world war came to Prague, where he continued his artistic education in the Studio of the landscape painter F. Angermuller, which eventually became the assistant, and the Ukrainian Studio of plastic arts. In 1922-1925 he studied at the Studio of Henri Matisse in Paris. Thanks to Matisse, and with the support of Picasso, succeeded in Paris in 1925 to open a personal exhibition. He traveled Italy, India, Tibet, Japan, USA, at the invitation of king worked in Norway. In 1928 he returned to Prague. In 1945 were forcibly deported to the Soviet Union, served in the Soviet Army. In 1952 he moved to Prague, where he lived the rest of his days. One of the most famous artists of interwar Prague, the author of numerous landscapes, portraits and still lifes. Personal exhibitions took place in Paris, Vienna, Prague, Svidník (Slovakia). Works are kept in museums and private collections of Ukraine, Slovakia, France, Czech Republic, Norway, USA.
