Vladimir's Visions

Vladimir Iwasiuk (1905—1986) was, first and foremost, a doctor of medicine, but also an accomplished artist who painted and sculpted throughout his life. The circumstances of his life and the time in which he lived make his prolificacy of over 350 works rather remarkable.

Born into an impoverished family in 1905 in Czernowitz (a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time), Vladimir lived and practiced there until World War II, when he was declared an enemy of the people and of the revol...