Philipp Antonovich Chirko (1859 - 1928)

Philipp Antonovich Chirko

Philipp Antonovich Chirko (Russian: Филипп Антонович Чирко) was a Russian and Ukrainian artist of the late 19th and the first third of the 20th centuries. He is known as a painter, a member of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions (Wanderers).

Philipp Chirko painted battle, genre and historical paintings, he also created a series of landscapes of Ukraine. He also created series of landscape paintings of Ukraine. The main part of his works, which were kept in the collection of Chernihiv Art Museum, was killed during the war and Nazi occupation of 1941-1943.