Adolfas Vaičaitis

1915–2015

Adolfas Vaičaitis (1915–2015) was a Lithuanian printmaker, book illustrator and painter. Born in Plikiškiai, he graduated in 1939 from the Kaunas Art School, where he studied under A. Galdikas. In 1944 he left for the West, lived in Germany in 1945–1949 and later moved to Australia; he died in Melbourne. His early works are realist, with graceful lines; the later ones are modernist, with expressive drawing. The publication 'Terra Australis Incognita' (2019) highlights the musical movement of lines and forms he created with minimal means, and the free movement of his hand, which combines spontaneous Western expression with a meditative, Eastern-inflected quality. His works are held by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art and the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art.

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