Stasys Jusionis (1927–2022) was a Lithuanian painter who trained at the Lithuanian Art Institute, won the Lithuanian SSR State Prize (1981) and edited the children’s magazine “Genys” from 1974 to 1989. He painted landscapes, thematic compositions and portraits, and was especially known for his personal vision of Lithuanian nature through the seasons. His work is marked by expressiveness, generalised drawing, vivid colour contrasts and energetic impasto.
Stasys Jusionis (1927–2022, b. Radviliškis, Lithuania) was a Lithuanian painter. He studied at the Kaunas Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts from 1947 to 1950 and graduated from the Lithuanian Art Institute in Vilnius in 1953. For 36 years he worked at the children’s magazine “Genys”, serving as its editor-in-chief from 1974 to 1989. As a painter he worked in landscape, thematic composition and portraiture, and was especially known for his personal interpretation of Lithuanian nature across the seasons. His paintings are marked by expressiveness, generalised drawing, vivid colour contrasts and energetic impasto brushwork. Representative works include “In the Orchard” (1966), “Old Samogitia” (1969) and “Autumn Evening” (1990). He held more than ten solo exhibitions in Lithuania and took part in exhibitions in Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Germany, Italy and Belgium. In 1981 he was awarded the Lithuanian SSR State Prize, and his works are held by art museums in Lithuania and Russia. He died in Vilnius in 2022. The oil painting “Boy” (1960), offered by TUMO Gallery, is an early example of his portraiture.
