Vytautas Pranas Bičiūnas
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Vytautas Pranas Bičiūnas (20 August 1893 in Klovainiai – October 30, 1943 in Sverdlovsk
Yekaterinburg
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) was a Lithuania
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n painter
Painting
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, theatre actor, writer and literary critic.

Biography

Between 1914-1916, he studied at Kazan
Kazan
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 Art School. Then in 1917, along with Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas
Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas
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, he edited the newspaper Lietuviu Balsas (The Lithuanian Voice)
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