Juozas Kamarauskas

Juozas Kamarauskas (1874 April 29, Skauradai village, Ukmergė County (Now Širvintos District Municipality) – 1946 October 9, Vilnius) was a Lithuanian architect, painter and engineer.

[1] Born in the village of Skouradai, in the family of farmers Mykolas Kamarauskas and Ieva Uršulė Sadauskaitė-Kamarauskienė.

He earned a living by doing odd jobs: he restored and copied paintings of religious content for provincial churches and estates, made various construction projects, drew posters mostly for opposition parties, household genre pictures, ex-librises, compiled Vilnius city plans, drew block layouts, designed postage stamps, banknotes , worked in various institutions.

Some of the most important are the drawings and sketches of the pavements of the 40 streets in the Old Town of Vilnius destroyed during the Second World War, made in 1944-1945.

Each building was drawn by the artist from nature, and then, according to the scratched possessions, it was transferred to the street pavements at the appropriate scale.