Photos
Algirdas Julius Greimas (far right) with his siblings Gražina Greimaitė and Romas Greimas. 1924 m.
© Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum. Open access at the Lithuanian Integral Museum Information System LIMIS.
The Greimas family: Konstancija Greimienė and Julius Greimas with their children Romas, Algirdas Julius and Gražina. Šiauliai, 24 June 1929. By B. Abramavičius.
© Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum. Open access at the Lithuanian Integral Museum Information System LIMIS.
Greimas in Grenoble, 1937-39. On the way to the mountains to celebrate the Independence Day, 16 February, c. 1938 m. From left to right: Ramutė Iešmanataitė, Aldona Dirmantaitė, professor Antonin Duraffour, an engineering student, Greimas.
Ramutė Iešmantaitė-Ramunienė private archive, courtesy of Jonė Ramunytė.
Greimas in Grenoble, 1937-39. Celebrating the Independence Day, 16 February, c. 1938 m.. From left to right: an engineering student, prof. Antonin Duraffour, Greimas.
Ramutė Iešmantaitė-Ramunienė private archive, courtesy of Jonė Ramunytė.
Greimas in Grenoble, 1937-39. A hiking trip to the mountains for the Independence Day, 16 February, c. 1938 m.. From left to right: Greimas, Aldona Dirmantaitė, an engineering student, Ramutė Iešmantaitė, prof. Antonin Duraffour, an unidentified person, Birutė Sirutytė, Birutė Skučaitė, Jonas Kossu-Aleksandravičius, Ženė Kučinskaitė.
Ramutė Iešmantaitė-Ramunienė private archive, courtesy of Jonė Ramunytė.
Greimas in Grenoble, 1937-39. After lectures. From Left to right: Greimas, Ramutė Iešmantaitė, an engineering student, Ženė Kučinskaitė.
Ramutė Iešmantaitė-Ramunienė private archive, courtesy of Jonė Ramunytė.
Greimas in Grenoble, 1937-39. After lectures. From Left to right: Jonas Aistis (Kossu-Aleksandravičius), Greimas, Birutė Sirutytė, Ramutė Iešmantaitė.
Ramutė Iešmantaitė-Ramunienė private archive, courtesy of Jonė Ramunytė.
Greimas in Grenoble, 1937-39. In Greimas's and Jonas Aistis's rented room. From left to right: a humanities student, Ženė Kučinskaitė, Ramutė Iešmantaitė, Aldona Dirmantaitė, an engineering student, Birutė Skučaitė, Birutė Sirutytė, Greimas.
Ramutė Iešmantaitė-Ramunienė private archive, courtesy of Jonė Ramunytė.
Greimas in Grenoble, 1937-39. On the way to the mountains to celebrate the Independence Day, 16 February, c. 1938 m. From left to right: prof. Antonin Duraffour, Ramutė Iešmantaitė, Ženė Kučinskaitė, Birutė Skučaitė, a humanities student, Greimas.
Ramutė Iešmantaitė-Ramunienė private archive, courtesy of Jonė Ramunytė.
Greimas in Grenoble, 1937-39. Celebrating the Independence Day, 16 February, c. 1938 m. From left to right: prof. Antonin Duraffour, Ramutė Iešmantaitė, Birutė Sirutytė, Greimas, Birutė Skučaitė, an engineering student, Aldona Dirmantaitė.
Ramutė Iešmantaitė-Ramunienė private archive, courtesy of Jonė Ramunytė.
Greimas in Grenoble, 1937-39. On the Independence Day, 16 February, c. 1938 m., in a mountain village. From left to right: a local, Ženė Kučinskaitė, Aldona Dirmantaitė, Birutė Sirutytė, Birutė Skučiatė, a local, prof. Antonin Duraffour, an engineering student, Greimas, a local; seated: Ramutė Iešmantaitė, a senior teacher; in front: unidentified person, the photographer of the other photos.
Ramutė Iešmantaitė-Ramunienė private archive, courtesy of Jonė Ramunytė.
Above: Algirdas Julius Greimas, Aldona Dirmantaitė, Jonas Aistis, and other Lithuanian students at Grenoble University. 23 February 1938.
© Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum. Open access at the Lithuanian Integral Museum Information System LIMIS.
Above: Jonas Aistis, V. Rocevičius, Aldona Dirmantaitė, and Algirdas Julius Greimas having a picnic. Grenoble, 1 May 1938.
© Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum. Open access at the Lithuanian Integral Museum Information System LIMIS.
“Cia laivas su kurio Greimas atvazuodavo is Istambulio.” [“This is the ship that used to bring Greimas from Istanbul.”] 1952-56, Iskenderun.
Courtesy of Perkūnas Liutkus.
Above: From left to right, seated: Anna Greimas, Colonel Juozas Lanskoronskis, Birutė Drunga (Sirutytė-Drungienė(-Valiulienė)), Karolis Drunga (Jurgis Valiulis), Mykolas Drunga; standing, first row: A. J. Greimas, unidentified couple, Eglė Liutkus, Janina Liutkus, Ada Martinkus, Antanas Liutkus (Jr.), Brigitte Broquet (a French friend of Eglė Liutkus); standing, second row: Antanas Liutkus (Sr.), Perkūnas Liutkus. Ca. 1956, Villefranche.
Perkūnas Liutkus private archive, courtesy of Valdas Papievis and Darius Kuolys.
Anna Greimas, Algirdas Julius Greimas, Ada Martinkus, and their dog Rudis, La Chausseé, 1978.
Photo courtesy of Živilė Šlekytė-Stanton.
Anna Greimas, Algirdas Julius Greimas, Ada Martinkus, and Hugo Zemp, La Chausseé, 1978.
Photo courtesy of Živilė Šlekytė-Stanton.
Greimas in Vilnius in 1979: with Aloyzas Stasiulevičius in the artist's studio.
Photo courtesy of Aloyzas Stasiulevičius.
Greimas in Vilnius in 1979: with the artists Aloyzas Stasiulevičius, Algirdas Steponavičius and Birutė Žilytė in Jeruzalė.
Photo courtesy of Aloyzas Stasiulevičius.
An informal meeting of the Minister of Education of France Lionel Jospin and the Minister of Culture and Education of Lithuania Darius Kuolys, initiated by Greimas and organised by Perkūnas Liutkus at his home in Paris in 1991. From left to right: an office worker of the Education Ministry of France, Perkūnas Liutkus, Sophie Liutkus, Ričardas Bačkis, an office worker of the Education Ministry of France, Sylviane Agacinski-Jospin, Darius Kuolys, Lionel Jospin, Ugnė Karvelytė, and Algirdas Julius Greimas.
Perkūnas Liutkus private archive, courtesy of Valdas Papievis and Darius Kuolys.
An informal meeting of the Minister for Education of France Lionel Jospin and the Minister for Culture and Education of Lithuania Darius Kuolys, initiated by Greimas and organised by Perkūnas Liutkus at his home in Paris in 1991. From left to right: Živilė Bačkienė, Darius Kuolys, Alfredas Jomantas (an office worker of the Lithuanian Ministry for Culture and Education), Sophie Liutkus, Ugnė Karvelytė, Algirdas Julius Greimas.
Perkūnas Liutkus private archive, courtesy of Valdas Papievis and Darius Kuolys.
A lion share of the material presented on this page has been collected in the framework of the project "Algirdas Julius Greimas Heritage in Lithuania," funded by the Lithuanian Research Council in 2015 (LIT-9-13). This project has been the beginning - but not the end - of the work of collecting a digital archive of Greimas material. If you have letters or other kind of documents, photographs or memorabilia, video or audio recordings, or memoirs you would like to share with us to be copied and preserved in our digital archive, please get in touch with the A. J. Greimas Centre for Semiotics and Literary Theory (centras@semiotika.lt) or Jūratė Levina (juratelevin@gmail.com).