Vasyl Kasiian
Василь Касіян
BornVasyl Illich Kasiian
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
NationalityUkrainian

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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