The talented painter Alfonsas Vilpišauskas died on December 21, 2015.
The painter was born in Savidonys village, Ukmergė district, on June 9, 1945. He studied at Kaunas Four-year Art School of Children in 1960-1964, at the State Art Institute (present Vilnius Academy of Arts) in 1964-1975. From 1990 he was a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association, from 1989 – a member of the artists’ group Angis. From 1978 he tought painting at Kaunas Four-year Art School of Children. He created works of pure painting. Some of the paintings of A. Vilpišauskas may be found in funds of the Lithuanian Museum of Art, National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, in private collections in Lithuania and abroad.
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One-man exhibitions
1978 – Lithuanian Artists’ Union, Kaunas Branch.
1993 – I. Mikuličiūtė’s gallery, Kaunas.
1997 – Eglė’s gallery, Kaunas.
1997 – Gallery Akcija M, Molėtai.
1998 – Kaunas District Public Library, Kaunas.
1998 – Eglė’s gallery, Kaunas.
1999 – Gallery Naujieji Skliautai, Vilnius.
2000 – “Painting from Nature”, Kaunas Picture Gallery.
2001 – Headquarters of Kaunas air force.
2003 – “Sentiments”, gallery Meno Parkas, Kaunas.
2005 – Akademijos gallery, Vilnius.
2005 – “Trip”, Kaunas Picture Gallery.
2005 – Paintings and drawings, gallery Arka, Vilnius.
2005 – “Trip”, Cultural centre gallery, Ukmergė.
2006 – Painting, Museum of Tartu University of History, Tartu, Estonia.
2007 – Painting, “Dialogue – Word and Colour”, Christ’s Resurrection Church, Kaunas.
2011 – Project “Duets”, painting exhibition along with Mykolas Šalkauskas. Gallery Aukso Pjūvis, Kaunas.
2015 – Exhibition “Spiritual Unity”, Meno Parkas gallery, Kaunas.
Major group exhibitions
1976 - 1994 – Exhibitions of Kaunas Artists, National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum (Lithuania)
1979 – “Bialowieza - 79”, Gallery Arsenal, Bialystok (Poland)
1982 – "5 Kaunas artists", National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
1989 – I exhibition of group Angis, Pavilion of National Economy Achievements, Vilnius (Lithuania)
1990 – Exhibition of the artists entering Lithuanian Artists' Association, Art Exhibition Palace, Vilnius (Lithuania)
1990 – "Art in the Prison", Hamburg (Germany)
1993 – Contemporary Lithuanian Art from Kaunas, Mestna Gallery, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
1993 – 4th Exhibition of the group Angis, National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
1994 – “Exhibition of Groups”, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
1994 – 6th Exhibition of the group “Angis”, Panevėžys Art Gallery, Panevėžys (Lithuania)
1994 – Exhibition of I international painting symposium dedicated to the memory of A.Samuolis, Artists' Association, Kaunas (Lithuania)
1995 – “Under the Gemini Sign”, National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas (Lithuania)
1996 – 7th Exhibition of the group “Angis” and guests, National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, M.Žilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
1997 – The exhibition “Far and Near” of IV international painting symposium dedicated to the memory of A.Samuolis, National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, M.Žilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
1997 – “Bridges of Europe”, Gallery “Zamecek”, Pribram (Czech Republic)
1998 – The exhibition of plainair "Return", National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
1999 – “Artists from Lithuania”, Gallery “Huset i Asnaes”, Asnaes (Denmark)
1999 – “Angis 1989 - 1999”, National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
1999 – "The beginning of The End", Art Exhibition palace, Baroti gallery, Klaipėda (Lithuania)
1999 – “Angis 1989 - 1999”, Šiauliai Art gallery, Šiauliai (Lithuania)
2000 – "Kaunas Gallery presents", D.Rostworowski gallery, Krakow (Poland)
2001 – Exhibition of painting and graphics “Terra Incognita” at Kaunas Picture Gallery
2002 – Exhibition “Gloria Deo” at the Jesuit Monastery in Kaunas
2002 – Reviewing exhibition of pictorial art “Collection 2002” at LDS in Šiauliai (2002)
2002/2003 – Project of group Angis “Erase the Marked Place” at Kaunas Picture Gallery
2003 – Project of group Angis “Insert” at Savanorių Ave. 168, Kaunas
2003 – Exhibition “Unknown Fine Arts of Lithuania of the Last Decade of the 20th Century” at Arka gallery in Vilnius
2003 – Exhibition “The Best Artwork of 2002” at Kaunas Picture Gallery
2003 – Exhibition of painting pain-air “Dipole. Between Vilnius and Kaunas” at Vilnius Town Hall gallery, at Meno Parkas in Kaunas
2004 – International exhibition “Unbearable Reality” in Kaunas.
2008 – “Kaunas: on this Side of Painting”, Meno Parkas gallery, Kaunas.
2009 – “Abstraction and Expressionism”: two Vilnius traditions of painting 1960–2009". Arka gallery, Vilnius.
2010 – “Kaunas: on this Side of Painting”, Klaipėda Art Exhibition Centre.
2010 – XIV Vilnius triennial of painting “Misleading Recognition”. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.
2010 – Exhibition of contemporary modern Lithuanian painting, Pylimo Gallery, Vilnius.
2011 – Retrospective exhibition of the group Angis dedicated to its 20th anniversary, Meno Parkas gallery, Kaunas; Titanikas, Vilnius.
2011 – 54th Venice Biennale, project “Behind the White Curtain”, pavilion Scuola di San Pasquale, Italy.
Awards
1976 – Diploma for the Best debut in Kaunas Young artists exhibition.
1999 – Highest scholarship of the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture.
2005 – Santaka sign of honour for the emeritous citizen of Kaunas.