Vasyl Kachurovskyi

Vasyl Kachurovskyi
Василь Качуровський
Born1906
Pennsylvania, United States
Died4 May 2000 (aged 95)
Chicago, United States
Alma materMukachevo Commercial Academy, Commercial institute in Prague
OccupationsPainter and art historian
A painting by Yuri Skorupsky dedicated to Vasyl Kachurovskyi

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

Biography

Vasyl Kachurovskyi was born in 1906 in Pennsylvania.[1]

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.[1]

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.[1][2][3]

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).[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Kachurovskyi Vasyl / V. V. Markus // Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine [Online] / Eds. : I. М. Dziuba, A. I. Zhukovsky, M. H. Zhelezniak [et al.] ; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Shevchenko Scientific Society. – Kyiv : The NASU institute of Encyclopedic Research, 2012.
  2. ^ Remeniaka O. S. The Diaspora Visual Arts of the Inter-War and Post-War Periods // Міст: Мистецтво, історія, сучасність, теорія. — 2018. — Вип. 14. — С. 283—287.
  3. ^ Ольга Руда (2023-02-06). "Український інститут модерного мистецтва Чикаго". Ukrainian people.