(b Munich, 28 Feb 1865; d Oberammergau, 17 Aug 1954). German painter, medallist, designer and illustrator. He trained as a painter in the Munich Akademie from 1884, and initially won fame in this art with large decorative schemes on mythological or religious themes (e.g. Bacchanal, c. 1888; Munich, Villa Schülein) and portraits painted in a broad, realistic manner (e.g. Elise Meier-Siel, 1889; Munich, Schack-Gal.). He taught at the Munich Kunstgewerbeschule from 1902 to 1910. In 1905 he taught himself die-engraving and began making struck and cast medals, producing in all some 200, which combine his decorative abilities with the harsher style of his younger contemporaries (e.g. the bronze medal of Anton von Knoezinger, 1907; see 1985 exh. cat., no. 23). In 1907 and 1927 he produced models for coinage. Dasio also worked as a poster designer and book illustrator, as well as designing for stained glass and jewellery. The decorative symbolism of his earlier work in black and white (e.g. the cover for Jean-Philippe Rameau’s ballet Platea, 1901; see 1985 exh. cat., no. 283) gave way in the years after World War I to a sterner approach, in which the influence of early German wood-engraving (e.g. the St George series of woodcuts, 1918; see 1985 exh. cat., no. 278), and on occasion the Nazarene school, is discernible. He received a number of honours before retiring in 1934 to Oberammergau.