A great author who put his every effort to instil sculpture in Lithuania. It was Vincas Grybas, one of the most prominent Lithuanian sculptors of the first half of the 20th century, a creator of the monument sculpture. Being a shepherd as a child, he began to carve wood using a small knife given as gift by his aunt. While carving in a meadow, he was spotted by a neighbour, Count Tomas Potockis, the owner of Zypliai Manor, who promised to help the young talent. This is the way the future creator found himself in Warsaw. For almost 10 years he was guided by Pijus Velionskis, sculptor of the academic direction.

Later V. Grybas studied in Kaunas School of Arts and at the age of 35 he became the first arts scholarship holder of Lithuania and went to Paris, the capital of the world arts. It was this place where he entered to private academy of arts of Emile-Antoine Bourdelle. Bourdelle tought him that an excellent sculpture requires three characteristics of an artist: that of an architect to properly design the work of art, that of a painter to distribute the change of light and that of a jeweller to perfectly carve the details. Having completed three years of studies, V. Grybas went on a journey across the most beautiful towns of Italy, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Germany. Having the possibility to choose any country to create, he rushed to come back to the young and independent homeland Lithuania hoping to make it just as beautiful as the towns he has seen.

In 1928 V. Grybas came back to Lithuania and stayed at the former Forest Management Office of Jurbarkas. After several years he installed a residential house, sculpture workshop and gypsum foundry here. Customers of monuments most frequently were specially established monument construction committees that would raise funds for future monuments. The artist became famous by his first monuments for Simonas Daukantas and Vytautas Magnus, but recognition was only one side of the coin. The raised funds would mostly suffice to cover material costs, let alone employment of assistants or reasonable earnings for the artist. The sculptor drowned in increasingly bigger debts and lived in constant fear and pain.

Just like V. Grybas wrote himself, "so much rushing, so much waste of time, so stressful worries, so many tears at night: I would have quit everything and left for whatever destination but for my family". Nobody can deny the sculptor’s talent of V. Grybas. His creative legacy is valued and celebrated. In Jurbarkas, the house where the artist lived and created, now accommodates a memorial museum bearing his name and telling about the interesting and dramatic sculptor's life.