Antanas Tamošaitis

1906–2005

Antanas Tamošaitis (1906–2005) was a Lithuanian textile artist, painter and graphic artist born in Barzdai. He studied at the Kaunas School of Art in 1923–1928 and later in the studio of M. Dobužinskis. From 1926 to 1939 he led expeditions collecting Lithuanian folk art. His carpets won a gold medal at the 1937 Paris World Exhibition. In 1944 he left for Austria, and in 1949 he moved to Canada, where he and his wife Anastazija founded an art and weaving studio in Kingston; he returned to Lithuania in 2000. He painted national-themed pictures with geometrically stylised, decorative forms. His works are held by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art and the Čiurlionis Art Gallery in Chicago.

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