Vasyl Kasiian Explained

Vasyl Kasiian
Василь Касіян
Birth Name:Vasyl Illich Kasiian
Birth Date:1 January 1896
Birth Place:Mykulyntsi, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Occupation:Artist, graphic
Nationality:Ukrainian

Vasyl Illich Kasiian (Ukrainian: Василь Ілліч Касіян; 1 January 1896 – 26 June 1976) was a Soviet and 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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