Pranas Lapė

1921–2010

Pranas Lapė (1921–2010) was a Lithuanian painter and printmaker. He was born in Klaipėda. In 1941–1943 he studied at the Kaunas Institute of Applied Art; in 1944 he left for Western Europe and from 1945 lived in Sweden, where he studied at A. Beckman's art school in Stockholm and later taught drawing there. From 1949 he lived in the USA, working for New York publishers and later at private schools. In 1998 he returned to Lithuania. He illustrated more than 300 books by American and Lithuanian authors, among them A. Baranauskas's Anykščių šilelis and Maironis's Baladės. His painting was influenced first by Cézanne and later by abstract expressionism. His works are held by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art and the National Museum of Lithuania.

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