Vasyl Kasiian

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

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.

People's Painter Vasyl Kasiian
Native name	Василь Касіян
Born	Vasyl Illich Kasiian (1896-01-01)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
Notable awards	Shevchenko National Prize

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
Preceded by Oleksandr Pashchenko	Head of the National society of painters of Ukraine 1944–1949 with second term (1962–1968)	Succeeded by Oleksiy Shovkunenko
Preceded by Mykhailo Derehus		Succeeded by Vasyl Borodai