Romualdas Aleliūnas (25 March 1960 – 7 December 2016) was a

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

n designer of ceramics from Panevėžys.Panevėžio miesto savivaldybė
panevezys.lt; accessed 27 December 2016. He graduated from the S. Žuko Applied Art college in

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in 1978, and was fluent in Lithuanian and Russian. In 1985, he began participating in international art and ceramic exhibitions in different countries, including Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and Spain. In 1997, he became a member of the Lithuanian Artists' Association. He was the creator of monumental decorative compositions from šamoto: "Return" in 1989, "Silence" in 1991, "Tower" 1992, "Box" in 1994, "Castle" in 1996, "Vase" in 1997. His works often combined round and square shapes. He moved to Kupiškis around 2003. In 2015, he was nominated to run for the Kupiškis city council. Aleliūnas died on 7 December 2016, aged 57, after collapsing suddenly at home.

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1960 births 2016 deaths 20th-century Lithuanian male artists 21st-century Lithuanian male artists People from Panevėžys People from Kupiškis {{Lithuania-artist-stub

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