Vytautas Kasiulis
Vytautas Kasiulis

Summary/Abstract: Vytautas Kasiulis was born April 23, 1915(?) in Simnas(?), Alytus area; died on March 12, 1995 in Paris. Since 1937, he studied in Kaunas Art School. In 1941, he graduated from Kaunas Applied and Fine Arts’ Institute and lectured there from 1941 till 1944 emigration to Germany. From 1946 till 1948 Kasiulis lived in Freiburg and lectured at the school of fine arts and crafts. From 1947 till 1949 he was a head of drawing class. From 1948 he lived in Paris. There he painted a number of compositions („Painter’s Family“, „Woman with a Baby“), portraits („Auto-portrait“, „Lithuanian Girl“, „Gipsy Girl“), lyrical landscapes, and still-life. His early works are darksome, realistic, psychological with the elements of humor pictures of kitchen-sink genre; later modernistic opuses are brighter and more decorative. In his compositions, he usually depicted musicians, showmen, saints (St. Kasimir, St. Peter), whose abstracted, intertwined with arabesque lines figures produce impression of carnival. Kasiulis produced many drawings, pastels, aquarelles, lithographs, and formatted French movie „Double Life“ (1954). He held personal exhibitions in Kaunas (1943), Freiburg (1947), Paris, Hamburg, Geneva, Berlin, London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Chicago, New York (1950–1955).

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