The Most Famous

Painters from Ukraine

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This page contains a list of the greatest Ukrainians Painters. The pantheon dataset contains 2,023 Painters, 30 of which were born in Ukraine. This makes Ukraine the birth place of the 16th most number of Painters behind Denmark and Japan.

Top 10 Ukrainian Painters

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Ukrainians Painters of all time. This list of famous Ukrainians Painters is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Ukrainians Painters.

  1. #1
    Photo of Kazimir Malevich

    Kazimir Malevich

    1879 - 1935

    HPI 79.2573 langs

    Kazimir Malevich is most famous for the painting "Black Square" which is a painting of a black square on a white background.

  2. #2
    Photo of Ilya Repin

    Ilya Repin

    1844 - 1930

    HPI 78.6982 langs

    Ilya Repin is most famous for his painting "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581."

  3. #3
    Photo of Sonia Delaunay

    Sonia Delaunay

    1885 - 1979

    HPI 71.7841 langs

    Sonia Delaunay is most famous for her use of color and geometric shapes in her paintings.

  4. #4
    Photo of Marie Bashkirtseff

    Marie Bashkirtseff

    1858 - 1884

    HPI 69.4938 langs

    Marie Bashkirtseff was born in 1858 and died at the age of 25. She was a painter who is most famous for her self-portraits.

  5. #7
    Photo of Maria Prymachenko

    Maria Prymachenko

    1908 - 1997

    HPI 66.3144 langs

    Ukrainian folk art painter (1909–1997)

  6. #8
    Photo of Zinaida Serebriakova

    Zinaida Serebriakova

    1884 - 1967

    HPI 66.0337 langs

    Russian and French painter (1884-1967)

  7. #10
    Photo of Maurycy Gottlieb

    Maurycy Gottlieb

    1856 - 1879

    HPI 63.8021 langs

    Polish painter and student of Jan Matejko (1856-1879)

People by Birth Decade

Browse notable Ukrainians Painters grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.

Overlapping Lives

Which Painters were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Painters since 1700.

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