Vladislovas Žilius

1939–2012

Vladislovas Žilius (1939–2012) was a printmaker, painter and sculptor. Born in Varsneliai, he graduated from the Telšiai School of Applied Art in 1958 and completed graphic art studies at the Lithuanian Art Institute in 1964. He worked for the Vaga and Mintis publishing houses and created the print cycle “Vilnius Legends” (1967), to which the gallery's zincograph “St Anne's Church” belongs. In 1974 he was accused of formalism and expelled from the Artists' Union, and in 1976 he emigrated to the USA. In New York he painted the cycles “Black Corals” and “Signs”, and from 1995 he made objects from wood, synthetic glass and metal. His works are held by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art and the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

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