Tadeusz Dowgird (; February 27, 1852 – October 29, 1919, in Kaunas, Lithuania) was a Polish-Lithuanian painter and archaeologist, nobleman of the Łabędź coat of arms. His father Mikołaj Dowgird was an engineer building a railway linking Moscow and St Petersburg, married to Maria née Jeleńska. Tadeusz Dowgrid was born in Russia, the family moved to the family house in Plemborg,

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, in 1856. In 1869, Tadeusz Dowgird took his early studies in

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. For a short while, between 1870 and 1872, he went to live in

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, where he continued to study, to later move to

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for four years (between 1872 and 1876), and deepened his studies at the

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therein. In 1882, Dowgird took part in the Courland Literature and Art Society. The year 1905 marked the beginning of his political career, when he joined the Lithuanian

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, while being a conservator at the Kaunas City Museum. He became its director in 1909. In the years of 1910 and 1914, Tadeusz Dowgird was a major player in running the Lithuanian Art Society's exhibitions. During the

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, he continued to guard the museum in Kaunas, while writing a detailed diary during

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of the

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. Published articles in Lithuanian newspapers. In 1917, Dowgird participated in the commission that designed the Lithuanian flag, with his plans for the color yellow to join the triband being accepted, together with its red and green color bands. In 1919, in his final year, he became the Chairman of the State Archaeological Commission (VAK). In February of that same year, prototypes created by Tadeusz Dowgird and Kazimieras Šimonis were chosen to be published for the first collection of Lithuanian

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s, printed in

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. File:Tadas Daugirdas - Pejzaż zimowy.jpg, Winter landscape File:TadasDaugirdas1890.jpg, alt=Tadas Daugirdas in 1890., Tadeusz Dowgird in 1890.

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