Artworks from LIDF collection in Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum
On 27th June (1918–1995) Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum (a new unit of the Lithuanian Art Museum) opened its doors in Vilnius. The fundamental mission of the Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum is to hold and display a collection of 950 of the artists’ creations and his personal archive, which were presented as a gift to Lithuania by the author’s widow Bronė Kasiulienė. Several paintings by Vytautas Kasiulis, compiled in the collection of Lithuanian Expatriate Art Foundation, can also be seen in the exhibition of the museum.
Today artworks by Vytautas Kasiulis are kept in Museums of Modern Art in Paris and New York, as well as art galleries of France, USA, Canada, Great Britain, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, Argentina and Australia. Vytautas Kasiulis was deservedly held by art critics to be one of the most interesting painters of the Parisian school of the second half of the 20th century. Vytautas Kasiulis taught in the Freiburg School of Arts and Crafts founded in 1946. A new and challenging period in the artist's life began in Paris, where he arrived in 1948. He gradually adapted to the new artistic environment. As he was very receptive to new artistic influences, he blended into the Parisian art community as a fully-fledged creator of his own style, and he revealed himself to be a versatile artist, expressing himself in paintings, drawings and book illustrations. In 1960 the artist purchased the first own art gallery, where artworks of other prominent representatives of the Parisian school were exhibited as well.
