Elvyra Katalina Kriaučiūnaitė (born 1942) is an
Argentine
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born
Lithuania
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n graphic artist. Born in
Buenos Aires, she moved to Lithuania in 1956, and graduated from the
Lithuanian Art Institute in 1968.
Since 1969 she has participated in exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad, held about 30 solo exhibitions. She has won awards in Lithuania and abroad. Her works on are display in the
Lithuanian Art Museum
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, National Museum of Fine Arts Čiurlionis, Čiurlionis Art Gallery in Chicago, A. Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and other foreign museums.
[Regina Urbonienė. Elvyra Katalina Kriaučiūnaitė. Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija, T. XI (Kremacija-Lenzo taisyklė). V.: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas, 2007, 29 psl.]
See also
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List of Lithuanian painters
References
Lithuanian painters
1942 births
Living people
Vilnius Academy of Arts alumni
20th-century Lithuanian women artists
21st-century Lithuanian women artists
Artists from Buenos Aires
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