| Vasyl Kasiian Василь Касіян | |
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| Born | Vasyl Illich Kasiian 1 January 1896 Mykulyntsi, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 26 June 1976(1976-06-26) (aged 80) 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.
External links
- Vasyl Kasiian in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia
- Yankovska, O.V. Kasiian Vasyl Illich (КАСІЯН ВАСИЛЬ ІЛЛІЧ). Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine.
| Cultural offices | ||
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| Preceded byOleksandr Pashchenko | Head of the National society of painters of Ukraine 1944–1949 with second term (1962–1968) |
Succeeded byOleksiy Shovkunenko |
| Preceded byMykhailo Derehus | Succeeded byVasyl Borodai | |
| 1964 Shevchenko National Prize winners | |
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- 1896 births
- 1976 deaths
- 20th-century Ukrainian politicians
- People from Sniatyn
- Artists from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
- Academy of Fine Arts, Prague alumni
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Full Members of the USSR Academy of Arts
- Second convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Sixth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Seventh convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Eighth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Ninth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Academic staff of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts
- Academic staff of the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture
- Heroes of Socialist Labour
- People's Artists of the USSR (visual arts)
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Recipients of the Shevchenko National Prize
- Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I
- Soviet illustrators
- Soviet painters
- Soviet printmakers
- Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians
- Ukrainian male painters
- Ukrainian printmakers
- Burials at Baikove Cemetery