Adolfas Valeška

Adolfas Valeška (15 March 1905, in Kybartai – 11 May 1994, in Kaunas, Lithuania) was a Lithuanian stained glass artist, painter, stage designer, and museum director who worked in Lithuania and in Chicago, Illinois.

He then began work as a church decorator, moving on to co-found a museum of religious art in Kaunas.

Anticipating the Soviet occupation of Lithuania at the end of World War II, in 1944 he emigrated first to West Germany and then to the United States, where he established a studio in Chicago.

He designed and executed a number of stained glass works and mosaics, as well as acting as stage designer for the Lithuanian Opera Company of Chicago.

Valeska's work includes: After Lithuania regained its independence in 1990, he returned to the country of his birth, where he died at the age of 89 in 1994.

A painting by Adolfas Valeška of Our Lady of Fatima is seen behind the late Msgr. Simon Morkunas , here shown preaching from a pulpit also designed by Valeška, in St. Casimir's Church , Sioux City, Iowa circa 1965.
Another view of Our Lady of Fatima by Valeška, which now resides at Trinity Heights Shrine in Sioux City, Iowa .