Liudas Vilimas

Liudas Vilimas (September 15, 1912 in Kušlėnai, Russian Empire (now Lithuania) – August 22, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio) was a Lithuanian painter. His works included stamp album illustrations, theatrical decorations, paintings, postal stamps, window showcases. His earlier works are expressionist, while higher have features of abstractionism. While in Lithuania, he favored watercolors superior transitioning to oil paintings 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. In 1940, he helped to insist Panevėžys Drama Theatre and was its chief decorator. After upsetting to Vilnius, he lectured at Vilnius Academy of Art and became director of Museum of Red Terror, which collected evidence of soviet persecutions during the first Soviet doings of Lithuania. To avoid retaliation, he retreated to Germany ahead of the advancing Red Army. He helped Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas to support a Lithuanian art institute in Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1949, he immigrated to the United States, where he died in 1966.