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Wall Painting Artwork "Heroes of Utena" – Adolfas Šapoka

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In 2021, Utena Adolfas Šapoka Gymnasium celebrated its 25th anniversary, and one of the most memorable details of the jubilee was a wall painting created by Tadas Vincaitis-Plūgas. The artist worked for two weeks on a historical piece reflecting the name of the gymnasium and the renowned Lithuanian historian Adolfas Šapoka. The main focus of the painting is a typewriter, which symbolizes how the historian "writes" the history of Lithuania. The outlines of Lithuania and Utena are also visible, woven into a national ribbon that represents the country's cultural heritage.

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In 2021, Utena Adolfas Šapoka Gymnasium celebrated its 25th anniversary, and one of the most memorable details of the jubilee was a wall painting created by Tadas Vincaitis-Plūgas. The artist worked for two weeks on a historical piece reflecting the name of the gymnasium and the renowned Lithuanian historian Adolfas Šapoka. The main focus of the painting is a typewriter, which symbolizes how the historian "writes" the history of Lithuania. The outlines of Lithuania and Utena are also visible, woven into a national ribbon that represents the country's cultural heritage. Adolfas Šapoka, born in 1906 in the Utena region, is one of the most significant creators of Lithuanian history. After completing his studies in Lithuania, he furthered his
education at foreign universities and worked at Vytautas Magnus University. In 1936, he published a work titled "History of Lithuania" with other authors, which became a fundamental exploration of Lithuanian history. Šapoka actively contributed to preserving Lithuania's historical and cultural memory and was a respected public figure and academic. After World War II, he moved to Germany and later to Canada, where he continued his work and wrote articles. In his memory, Utena named a gymnasium after Adolfas Šapoka in 1997, and in 2001, a memorial room was established there. The location of Šapoka's native homestead, where an oak-post monument created by woodcarver Pranas Kaziūnas stands, is included in the Register of Cultural Heritage.
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