Viktoras Vizgirda

Viktoras Vizgirda (January 1, 1904 – July 10, 1993) was a Lithuanian painter. He is mostly known for landscapes and still life, but he also did portraits.

In 1926, he graduated from the Kaunas Art School and from 1926 to 1927 he continued his education in Paris, where he became acquainted with the works of French modernists Paul Cézanne, Raoul Dufy, Henri Matisse, André Derain.

In 1944, he emigrated to the West and lived in Vienna, Tübingen, and Berlin. From 1946 to 1949 he worked at the School of Arts and Crafts (Werkkunstschule) in Freiburg. In 1947 he took part in the founding of the Institute of Lithuanian Art in Freiburg and became the first chairman of its board.

In 1950 he emigrated to the United States, where he lived in Dorchester, Boston. He died in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Works His paintings were mostly influenced by his teacher, at the Kaunas Art School, as well as by French Post-Impressionism.

Since 1930 he had personal exhibitions in the West and in Lithuania, also posthumously.

In museums, his works are owned by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum, the in Telšiai, the in Šiauliai and in museums outside Lithuania.