Alfonsas Andriuškevicius

Born 1940 in Vilkaviškis/Lithuania.

Alfonsas Andriuškevičius is a poet and art historian. He studied at the University of Vilnius from where he also took his doctoral degree. Andriuškevičius explored a number of different disciplines, including ethnography and philosophy. Currently, he teaches at the Vilnius Academy of Arts.

Alfonsas Andriuškevičius has written several books in the discipline of art criticism, four poetry collections and an essay collection. In 2007, he was awarded the Lithuanian National Prize for his works Rašymas dūmais (Writing with Smoke) and Lietuvių dailė 1975-1995 (Lithuanian Art 1975–1995).

Selected publications: Grožis ir menas lietuvių estetikoje 1918–1940 (Beauty and Art in Lithuanian Aesthetics 1918–1940), 1989; 33 eilėraščiai (33 Poems), 1994; 66 eilėraščiai (66 Poems, 1998), Eilėraščiai (Poems), 2000; the collection of articles on art criticism Lietuvių dailė 1975–1995 (Lithuanian Art 1975–1995), 1997 and Rašymas dūmais (Writing in Smoke), 2004, a collection of essays.