Vytautas Pranas Bičiūnas (20 August 1893 – 4 November 1942) was a Lithuanian artist, theatre actor, writer and art critic.

As a member of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party, he was elected to the Constituent Assembly of Lithuania and the First Seimas.

As a gymnasium student in Šiauliai, Bičiūnas joined Varpas Society which organized Lithuanian cultural events and theater performances.

He was an active member of the Constituent Assembly and the First Seimas, speaking frequently on issues of the Lithuanian Land Reform of 1922 and other legislation.

[1] Bičiūnas became acquainted with Jonas Misius-Misevičius, Gabrielius Landsbergis-Žemkalnis, and other members of Varpas Society which organized Lithuanian cultural events and theater performances in Šiauliai.

He also illustrated poetry collection Tėvynės ašaros of Motiejus Gustaitis and started writing art criticism (first unpublished texts were about Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis).

[1] In late 1917, Bičiūnas was drafted to the Imperial Russian Army but quickly left it to work at the short-lived Supreme Lithuanian Council in Russia [lt].

[4] In January 1921, when discussing the establishment of a technical school in Kaunas (present-day Kaunas University of Applied Engineering Sciences), he proposed to make it more generalist than just a school of communication technology and suggested opening construction and chemistry departments.

He actively worked on several finance related laws, including on pay for workers and members of the parliament, government stipends for singers, etc.

[9] It was not were successful and closed down, but was reopened in 1928 when new artists, including Adolfas Valeška, Viktoras Vizgirda, Juozas Mikėnas [lt], joined the workshop.

In 1930s, he delivered lectures on modernist and avant-garde art movements on Kaunas Radiophone [lt].

[2] NKVD accused 15 Lithuanians (including Bičiūnas, Juozas Papečkys, Voldemaras Vytautas Čarneckis [lt]) of organizing a "counter-revolutionary" group that prepared for an armed mutiny inside the gulag.

[2] They were shot in an NKVD prison in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) and were likely buried in a mass grave at the 12 kilometre marker on the highway to Moscow.

In 1990s, Memorial to the Victims of Political Repression [ru] was built at the site with more than 18,000 names of the people buried there.

[14] Bičiūnas wife Natalija Namikaitė with two sons and daughter Jūratė were also arrested during the June deportation.

[15] Starting in 1911, Bičiūnas contributed articles and art to various Lithuanian periodicals, including Aušrinė, Vaivorykštė [lt], Vairas, Nepriklausomoji Lietuva, Tiesos kardas, Draugija, Lietuvos aidas, Ateitis, Pavasaris.

[2] In 1917, he was secretary of Lietuvių balsas [lt] published by the Lithuanian Society for the Relief of War Sufferers.

[10] He published two textbooks on drawing and penmanship[7] as well as an advice book for amateur theater activists.

[10] Additionally, he published a history of Kaunas (1930), a work on the Vilnius conflict (1931), and a biography of priest Jonas Katelė [lt] (1934).