About Collection
The Kaunas Modern Art Foundation (KMAF) has accumulated over 100
paintings, graphic works, and sculptures.
The core of this collection consists of the older generation of painters:
Vytautas Povilaitis (father), Antanas Martinaitis and works by painters
from Angis group that was established at the end of the 20th century,
such as Alfonsas Vilpišauskas, Arūnas Vaitkūnas, Henrikas Čerapas,
Raimondas Gailiūnas, Rimvidas Jaunkauskas – Kampas, Ričardas
Nemeikšis, Kęstutis Lupeikis. In addition to that, the foundation owns
works by painters of different generations important for the history of
Lithuanian painting: Pranas Lapė, Eugenijus Varkulevičius-Varkalis,
Laima Drazdauskaitė, Jovita Aukštikalnytė, Algis Skačkauskas among
others.
The painting archive is the largest but graphic art and sculpture
collections also contain some prominent names, like Edmundas
Saladžius, Petras Repšys, Žibuntas Mikšys, Algimantas Puipa, Vytautas
Kazimieras Jonynas, Liudas Truikis (pieces of scenography), Robertas
Antinis (senior), Leonas Strioga, Edmundas Frėjus and sculptures by old
Lithuanian folk artists. The wide range of surnames points to the
diversity of generations, styles and even location (there are some
emigrant artists) but they can all be attributed to the 20th-century
modernism. Moreover, this collection of mostly Kaunas artists can lead
us to where it all began – Kaunas Art School of the interwar period.