Adomas Galdikas was a Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

n painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

, graphic artist, scenographer

Scenographer

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.

Biography

Galdikas attended painting studios in Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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 and Berlin

Berlin

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. Galdikas continued his studies in Sweden

Sweden

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, Italy

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 and France

France

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. In 1923, after returning to Lithuania, he founded his own graphics studio in Kaunas

Kaunas

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, where he worked until 1940. At the same time he was also lecturing at the Kaunas Art School. During World War II

World War II

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 Galdikas was a professor at the Kaunas Applied Arts Institute. Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas

Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas

Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas was one of most renowned 20th century Lithuanian artists...

 was among his students. From 1946 to 1947 Galdikas lectured as a professor in Freiburg im Breisgau (École des Arts et Métiers). In 1947 Galdikas moved to Paris

Paris

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, and in 1952 to the United States

United States

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. He settled in New York, where he lived until his death.

Works

Since 1920 Galdikas participated in art exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. Galdikas also illustrated books and created scenography for 19 plays at the Kaunas State Theater

Kaunas State Musical Theatre

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. He has also designed a number of interbellum Lithuanian postage stamps, bonds

Bond (finance)

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 and paper litas banknote

Banknote

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s. In Germany, France and the United States he worked mainly as painter.

In 1937 for his triptych

Triptych

A triptych , from tri-= "three" + ptysso= "to fold") is a work of art which is divided into three sections, or three carved panels which are hinged together and can be folded shut or displayed open. It is therefore a type of polyptych, the term for all multi-panel works...

 Lithuania Galdikas was awarded the 1937 Paris Exhibition Grand Prix. For the scenography and costumes for drama

Drama

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 Šarūnas by Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius

Vincas Kreve-Mickevicius

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 Galdikas was awarded 1937 Paris Exhibition Golden medal. Works by Adomas Galdikas were acquired by Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts

Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts

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, Lithuanian M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum

M. K. Ciurlionis National Art Museum

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, Lithuanian Art Museum

Lithuanian Art Museum

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, Latvian National Museum of Art, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume

Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume

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in Paris, and other museums.