Ričardas Povilas Vaitiekūnas

1940–2025

Ričardas Povilas Vaitiekūnas (1940–2025) was a Lithuanian painter and teacher born in Kaunas. He graduated from the Lithuanian Art Institute in 1964 and lived and worked in Pažaislis in 1967–1976, and later in Vilnius. He taught at children's art schools and, from 1989 to 2002, at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, where he headed the Painting Department in 1994–2002; he became a professor in 1998. He founded the artists' group '24'. His landscapes and still lifes are marked by the personification of objects, distinctive metaphors and symbols, expressive spontaneous brushwork and a subtle palette. In 1991 he received the Lithuanian National Prize. His works are held by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, the MO Museum and the Amsterdam City Museum.

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