[2] Vizgirda was born at the Dominikoniai farm in Garliava volost, Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire.
In 1914, during World War I, after the farm was destroyed and his father died, he and his mother moved to Kaunas.
[3][2] In 1926, he graduated from the Kaunas Art School and from 1926 to 1927 he continued his education in Paris, where he became acquainted with the works of French modernists Paul Cézanne, Raoul Dufy, Henri Matisse, André Derain.
[4] In 1947 he took part in the founding of the Institute of Lithuanian Art in Freiburg and became the first chairman of its board.
[2][1] His paintings were mostly influenced by his teacher, Justinas Vienožinskis [lt] at the Kaunas Art School, as well as by French Post-Impressionism.