Henrikas Natalevičius

b. 1953

Henrikas Natalevičius (b. 1953, Vilnius) is a Lithuanian painter. He graduated from the Lithuanian Art Institute in 1976 and worked at the Exhibition Palace of Art in Vilnius and in the painting department of the Lithuanian Art Museum. In the 1970s–80s, with B. Gražys, M. Skudutis, R. Sližys and R. Vilkauskas, he formed one of the first unofficial artists’ groups, known as the “Five”; he was also a member of Grupė 24, a group active in 1989–2000. His work is marked by fantasy-inspired visions, irony, layered meaning and an “aesthetics of ugliness”; he gives objects and natural forms the shapes of human body parts. He set aside literary narrative and cultivated expressive brushwork, often in a brown-green palette. His works are held by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, the MO Museum and the Zimmerli Art Museum (USA).

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