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Vasyl Kachurovskyi

Vasyl Kachurovskyi (; 1906 – 4 May 2000) was an American painter and art historian of Ukrainian descent.

Biography

Vasyl Kachurovskyi was born in 1906 in Pennsylvania.

He studied at the Mukachevo Commercial Academy and a commercial institute in Prague (1930). During 1938 to 1939, he was active in the banking sector and the representation of the Carpatho-Ukrainian government in Prague.

From 1945, he was in Germany, and in 1950, he was in Chicago (United States). From 1971 to 1982, he co-founded and became the first curator of the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago.

Creativity

Kachurovskyi's works are characterized by mood, abstraction, and the simplification of forms, which lead to a philosophical understanding. He was a participant in the "Dolya" group exhibitions. Solo exhibitions took place in Detroit and Chicago (2011, posthumously).

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