Alfonsas Andriuškevičius
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Alfonsas Andriuškevičius (born November 18, 1940, in
Vilkaviškis Vilkaviškis () is a city in southwestern Lithuania, the administrative center of the Vilkaviškis District Municipality. It is located northwest from Marijampolė, at the confluence of and rivers. The city got its name from the Vilkauj ...
, Lithuania) is a poet and art historian. He received the Lithuanian National Prize in 2007 for essay ''Rašymas dūmais'' (''Writing with Smoke'', 2004) and collection of art critique ''Lietuvių dailė 1975-1995'' (''Lithuanian Art 1975-1995'', 1997). Andriuškevičius graduated from
Vilnius University Vilnius University ( Lithuanian: ''Vilniaus universitetas'') is a public research university, which is the first and largest university in Lithuania, as well as one of the oldest and most prominent higher education institutions in Central and Ea ...
in 1965, and went on to explore a variety of disciplines, including ethnography and philosophy. from 1974 to 1990 worked at
Lithuanian Academy of Sciences The Lithuanian Academy of Sciences or LMA (, ) is a state-funded independent organization in Lithuania dedicated for science and research. Its mission is to mobilize prominent scientists and initiate activities that would strengthen the welfare ...
. He taught the
Russian language Russian is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic languages, Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, and is ...
, lectured at the Vilnius Academy of Art from 1989 to 2009. His publications include several books of art criticism, four poetry collections, and a collection of thirty essays.


Selected works

* ''Rašymas dūmais'', 2004 * ''Grožis ir menas lietuvių estetikoje 1918–1940'', 1989 * ''33 eilėraščiai'', 1994 * ''66 eilėraščiai'', 1998 * ''Eilėraščiai'', 2000 * ''Lietuvių dailė 1975–1995'', 1997


References


External links

*''Concealed in Smoke''
The Vilnius magazine Review
1940 births Living people People from Vilkaviškis Lithuanian male poets Lithuanian art historians Vilnius University alumni Academic staff of the Vilnius Academy of Arts Members of the Seimas {{Europe-art-historian-stub