Vytautas Valius

Who is Vytautas Valius?

Vytautas Valius was a Lithuanian painter and graphic designer.

Valius graduated from the Lithuanian State Art Institute. He worked in the fields of illustration of prints, paintings and books. From 1965 to 1971, he taught composition at the Vilnius Art Institute.

Valius created a cycle of paintings Lithuanian folk song motives, Historical paraphrases, 20th Century. His wall paintings decorate Hunters' Inn in Kaunas and Kristijonas Donelaitis reading room at Vilnius University. Valius created decorations for plays, illustrated numerous books of poetry, stories, teaching and scholarly publications. He created the decorations for drama triptych Orator, Maniac, The Prophet Jonah by Kazys Saja. Valius created mixed media print cycles of 1863 in Lithuania, Planet, Literary paraphrases, Architecture, Musical Theme, Cultural ecology.

Since 1956, he was involved in many international exhibitions. Personal exhibition were held in Vilnius, Kaunas, Šiauliai, Plungė, Panevėžys, Alytus, Telšiai, Mažeikiai, Toronto, Chicago, Detmold, Washington, D.C.. In 2000, Chodkiewicz Palace and Kaunas Picture Gallery held a retrospective exhibition.