Adomas Galdikas

1893–1969

Adomas Galdikas (1893–1969) was a Lithuanian painter regarded as the founder of the modern Lithuanian landscape, combining folk art with modern stylistic trends. He lived and worked in Lithuania until the Second World War and later left for the United States. His early painting is realist: until about the 1950s he sought to capture reality as a phenomenon of being, depicting an object or person not as he subjectively saw it but in response to its archetypal form. In his late period he also painted abstractions, such as the tempera works "Abstraction" of 1960–1968. His works are held by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, "Alka" and the Galdikas Museum.

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