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.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.
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.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.
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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