Background
Vytautas Kairiukstis was born on November 14, 1890 in Sejny, Poland.
Vytautas Kairiukstis was born on November 14, 1890 in Sejny, Poland.
Kairiukstis studied at the Vilnius Drafting School under the guidance of I. P. Trutnyev during the period from 1910 to 1911. In 1917 he entered the Moscow State School of Painting, Sculpture and Construction.
In 1921 Kairiukstis settled in Vilnius, where two years later he worked with Władysław Strzeminński to organize the Exhibition of New Art that marked the birth of the Polish avant-garde. The exhibition catalogue included Kairiukstis's Constructivist manifesto, which accented the autonomy and universal nature of artistic rights and the intellectual and objective dimensions of art.
Between 1923 and 1930 Kairiukstis headed a program, known as the Painting Studies for Young People in Vilnius.
Kairiukstis's artistic stance was highly influenced by the many voyages he undertook between 1924 and 1931. During these years he visited Italy, Germany, Belgium, Denmark and France. As an art critic Kairiukstis worked with Jan Brzekowski and Wanda Chodasiewicz-Grabowska in 1929, publishing the Parisian-based magazine "L'Art Contemporain - Sztuka Wspołczesna".
In 1940 Vytautas was appointed the head of the Arts Department of the Kaunas Museum of Culture, a post he held until 1944, when he started to lecture at the Kaunas Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts. In 1952 Kairiukstis retired and came back to Vilnius.
Laivelis Ant Ežero
Miestas Vakaro Žarose
Composition
Kompozicija. Pažaislis
Besimaudanti Moteris
Kubistinis Motinos Portretas
Cubist Composition. Sitting Woman
Koncertas
Kapri Saloje
Vakaras Irkutske
Composition
Sėdinčios Moters Aktas
Natiurmortas Su Geltona Vaza
Gamtovaizdis Su Aviliais
Cubist Portrait
Kubistinė Kompozicija
Verpėja
Moterys Pliaže
Kompozcija. Sėdinti Moteris
Ant Ežero
Suprematistinė Kompozicija
Miestas
Sitting Woman