Katiliūtė Juzefa

Juzefa Katiliūtė (born in 1916 in the village of Igliauksa, Marijampolė County) graduated from the Kaunas Art School in 1942 and from the Vilnius Academy of Arts. At the end of the war, she and her husband, fleeing Lithuania, ended up in Switzerland, where she also graduated with honors from the Geneva School of Art. Since then, she has been living in Switzerland and often participates in exhibitions. Her authorial exhibitions have been held in the USA and Swiss cities. Her work was exhibited in Vilnius, at the Exhibition Hall, at the Emigrant Art Exhibition in 1988, and in 2000 at the same exhibition at the Radziwill Palace. J. Katiliūtė’s fantasy also marked another area – Swiss watches, which the artist used to decorate to earn a living.

J. Katiliūtė’s works were purchased in Geneva, entered the museums of this city, and some of them were previously stored in the Lithuanian Art Museum. The artist’s paintings and graphics are dominated by her favorite genre – landscape. The artist is interesting for her expressive abstractionism. It is said that her “electrified” colored works sensitively listen to the vibrations of nature and the soul.