Khasevych, Nil

Khasevych, Nil [Хасевич, Ніль; Xasevyč; noms de guerre: D. Bei, Bei-Zot], b 25 November 1905 in Diuksyn, Rivne county, Volhynia gubernia, d 4 March 1952 in Sukhivtsi, Rivne raion, Rivne oblast. Graphic artist. As a student of the Warsaw Academy of Arts (1925–37), he belonged to the Ukrainian art circle Spokii. Specializing in bookplates produced by the woodcut technique, he participated in many exhibitions, particularly in the Berlin and Prague exhibitions of Ukrainian graphic art and in the International Exhibition of Woodcuts in Warsaw (1936–7). Joining the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in 1943, he worked as an underground artist designing and illustrating its publications. Two albums of his work have been published: Ekslibrys Nila Khasevycha (Bookplates by Nil Khasevych, 1939) and Hrafika v bunkrakh UPA (Graphic Art in the Bunkers of the UPA, 1952). He was killed by Soviet counterinsurgency forces.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]