The Vilnius Academy of Arts ( lt, Vilniaus dailės akademija, previously ''State Art Institute of Lithuania'') in

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, Lithuania, grants a variety of degrees in the arts.

History

The Academy traces its roots back to the creation of the Architecture Department at

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in the former

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in 1793. The Department of Painting and Drawing was established in 1797, followed by the Department of Graphics (Engraving), and in 1805 – the Departments of Sculpture and History of art. In 1832, the university was closed, and reopened in 1919 with departments of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Art. In 1940, the art studies in Lithuania were united under Vilnius Art Institute and

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. Later, the Academy saw several re-organisations, and in 1990 the name of Vilnius Academy of Arts was reinstated. The academy began working with

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in 2000, when the UNESCO department of culture management and culture policy was created. The museum of the Academy holds about 12,000 pieces, ranging from the 16th century to the works of its most recent students and graduates.

Notable alumni

Danas Andriulionis Danas Andriulionis (born 25 November 1951 in Rokiškis) is a Lithuanian painter and a member of the Lithuanian Artists' Association. He studied in Pakruojis Pakruojis () is a city in Lithuania. It is situated on the Kruoja River, which has a ...

, Lithuanian artist *

Rūta Jokubonienė Rūta Birutė Jokubonienė (14 January 1930 – 14 May 2010) was a Lithuanian textile artist. Biography In 1954, Rūta Birutė Jokubonienė graduated from the Lithuanian Institute of Fine Arts where she studied with Balčikonis J. Sofia Vei ...

*Arūnas Rutkus *

Vytautas Tomaševičius Vytautas Tomaševičius (born 1972) is a Lithuanian painter, creating work in Vilnius since the late 1990s. His distinctive style combines a graphite and painted image with an enlarged laser-printed graphic transferred to the painting surface. In ...

Gražina Didelytė Gražina Didelytė-Abaravičienė (2 October, 1938 – January 2, 2007) was a Lithuanian graphic artist and book illustrator. Biography Gražina Didelytė has born in a suburban (at that time) area of Kaunas in 1938. She graduated Kaunas Salomėj ...

Algis Uždavinys Algis Uždavinys (1962–2010) was a prolific Lithuanian philosopher and scholar. His work pioneered the hermeneutical comparative study of Egyptian and Greek religions, especially their esoteric relations to Semitic religions, and in particula ...

Jurga Ivanauskaitė Jurga Ivanauskaitė (14 November 1961 – 17 February 2007) was a Lithuanian writer. She was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. While studying at the Vilnius Art Academy, she wrote her first book, ''The Year of the Lilies of the Valley'', published ...

References

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