Rimtautas Gibavičius

1935–1993

Rimtautas Vincentas Gibavičius (1935–1993) was a printmaker, book designer, stage designer and master of sgraffito. He graduated from the Art Institute in 1960; "Girl of the Fields", a sheet from his diploma work, the woodcut series "Youth", was shown in 1962 at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. He became best known for the print cycle "Vilnius" (1964–1987), which won him the Lithuanian SSR Prize in 1968, and for his sgraffiti at Vilnius University, "The Nine Muses" (1969) and "Historical Portraits". In the Soviet era he sought to make Lithuanian art more intellectual and closer to Western art. From 1990 he was a professor at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. His works are held by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, the Tretyakov Gallery and the Hermitage.

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