Leopoldas Surgailis

1928–2016

Leopoldas Surgailis (1928–2016) was a Lithuanian painter. He was born in Utena in 1928 and died in Vilnius in 2016. He graduated from the Lithuanian Art Institute in 1952 and taught there from 1960 to 2002 (from 1990 the Vilnius Academy of Arts). He exhibited from 1952 and was a member of the group '24' from 1989 to 2000. He continued the traditions of Lithuanian expressionist painting. He painted mostly figurative compositions whose main characters are St George and St Michael, complemented by figures of the Pietà, the Rūpintojėlis (Pensive Christ), St Vincent and other saints. His works are held by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, MO Museum and the Zimmerli Art Museum (USA).

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