Liudas Vilimas was a Lithuania

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n painter. His works included book illustrations, theatrical decorations, paintings, postal stamps, window showcases

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. His earlier works are expressionist, while later have features of abstractionism

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. While in Lithuania, he favored watercolors later transitioning to oil painting

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s and figure compositions.

In 1935, he graduated from Kaunas School of Arts. In 1938 he continued his studies in the Academy of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria

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. In 1940, he helped to establish Panevėžys Drama Theatre and was its chief decorator. After moving to Vilnius, he lectured at Vilnius Academy of Art

Vilnius Academy of Art

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 and became director of Museum of Red Terror, which collected evidence of soviet persecutions during the first Soviet occupation of Lithuania. To avoid retaliation, he retreated to Germany ahead of the advancing Red Army

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. He helped Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas

Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas

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 to establish a Lithuanian art institute in Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1949, he immigrated to the United States

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, where he died in 1966.