Vasyl Kasiian

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Illich and the family name is Kasiian.

People's Painter

Vasyl Kasiian
Native name
Василь Касіян
BornVasyl Illich Kasiian
(1896-01-01)1 January 1896
Mykulyntsi, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary
Died26 June 1976(1976-06-26) (aged 80)
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
OccupationArtist, graphic
Notable awardsShevchenko National Prize

Vasyl Illich Kasiian (Ukrainian: Василь Ілліч Касіян; 1 January 1896 – 26 June 1976) was a Soviet Ukrainian painter, graphic, parliamentary, People's Painter of the USSR, academician of the Academy of Arts of the Soviet Union.

A native of Eastern Galicia, he was a World War I veteran. While studying in Academy of Fine Arts, Prague in 1920s, Kasiian was a student of Czech painter Max Švabinský.

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