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  • Antanas Tamošaitis (1906–2005). Drawings of Painterly Decorated Dowry Furniture

    Antanas Tamošaitis (1906–2005). Drawings of Painterly Decorated Dowry Furniture

    The archives of the Folk Art Department of M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art contain drawings of chests, wardrobes and sideboards by the artist Antanas Tamošaitis. A part of them – drawings of the painterly decorated dowry furniture – is presented in this virtual exhibition dedicated to the artist’s 115th birth anniversary and the year of archives.

    A. Tamošaitis was born in Barzdai village, the former Šakiai county. In 1923 he started studying at Kaunas Art School and graduated with a degree in graphics in 1929. He was a teacher at this school for several years. Since 1926, A. Tamošaitis participated in expeditions during which he collected articles of folk art, captured them in photographs and drawings. In 1934, the artist travelled along the then counties of Marijampolė, Šakiai and Vilkaviškis and depicted samples of furniture on small-format watercolour sheets in gouache technique.

    The drawings of chests make up the largest group of the displayed images. The plane surfaces are arranged schematically on a sheet of paper. The compositions differ in that they show either the basic plane of a piece of furniture or two planes, or even three. The areas of a cover, front and back planes are painted in one colour, usually dark red. The front surface is divided into rectangles or squares which acquire differently coloured ornaments of nature motifs. The most common of them are white, black and muted beetroot, yellow, blue and green. Such compositions are dominated by sketchy trees of life, consisting of lines, dots, and plant motifs.

    The drawing of a cover corresponds to the main plane of a chest and is divided into two or one square decorated with a plant ornament, while the back plane has as a rule linear ornaments.

    There are only a few drawings of sideboards. The drawings of each front surface is composed in the centre of a separate sheet of paper. The background of the plane is painted in tints of red or brown and has quite an accurate plant motif. The surfaces of door planes are marked out with a black contour line. The details of the locks, hinges and handles are painted dark, their drawing is planar and generalized.

    On every drawing there are the author’s artistic marks inscribed symmetrically – the capital letters “A T” and the year of the expedition – “1934”. Actually, they are like graphic ex-libris drawn in thin lines and a combination of black and beetroot colour.

    A. Tamošaitis’ drawings created in the ethnographic region of Suvalkija are a valuable part of the author’s legacy and testify to the location of the furniture characteristic of certain region and the tradition of their decoration.

    Prepared by Monika Gineikienė

     
  • Artist A. Žmuidzinavičius – a pedagogue at Kaunas Art School. 1926–1940

    Artist A. Žmuidzinavičius – a pedagogue at Kaunas Art School. 1926–1940

    Soon after the re-establishment of the Lithuanian Art Society in 1918, the idea of founding the Academy of Fine Arts in Vilnius with the painter Antanas Žmuidzinavičius as its head was put forward. However, due to Vilnius’ occupation by Poland, the plan failed to be realized. As a matter of fact, Kaunas became the provisional capital of Lithuania and the Higher Drawing Courses began operating there in 1920, but on the initiative of the artist Justinas Vienožinskis they were reorganized into the Art School in 1922.

    In 2022, this educational institution which had laid the most significant foundation for the national art, educated the most prominent personalities of the 20th-century Lithuanian art, and was the main centre of training artists and art teachers in interwar Lithuania is celebrating its 100th anniversary. A. Žmuidzinavičius was one of the most progressive teachers at the Kaunas Art School, he taught drawing, watercolour and oil painting from 1926 until 1940. This virtual tour aims to reveal the artist’s links with the school – his pedagogical endeavour, relations with students and colleagues, acquaints with exhibits housed at the A. Žmuidzinavičius Creations and Collections Museum in Kaunas.

    As soon as Žmuidzinavičius started working as a pedagouge, he became involved in the activity of the Teachers’ Council which dealt a variety of issues. Meetings were held to discuss the admission of pupils, an educational process, and a content of the curriculum. The artist did not avoid having his say, he shared his insights and suggestions on how to improve the school’s work, and participated with other teachers in the assessment of pupils’ achievements.
    During the inter-war period, the school did not escape disturbances caused by the staff, structural and status changes. A. Žmuidzinavičius and other teachers had to leave the school. A new reform was drawn up by the Ministry of Education, stating that the curriculum, the examination procedure and the method of assessing pupils were to be determined by the Minister of Education. However, quite soon most teachers and pupils returned back.

    In 1938, the commission of pedagogues drafted a new statute along with a study programme that required the School of Art to become a higher educational institution. As a result, in 1940 the Kaunas Art School was reorganized into the Kaunas School of Applied Arts. It was a common decision to consider drawing as the main discipline for learning about nature and studying art. 4 hours per week were devoted to watercolour, drawing, perspective, ornamentation, art history and graphic art. A. Žmuidzinavičius taught both general and special disciplines, he educated a great many of future artists, among them J. Buračas, V. Šleivytė, R. Kalpokas, L. Vainekytė, V. Palaima, L. Katinas, M. Katiliūtė, J. Kėdainis, P. Gudynas, V. Mackevičius, A. Kučas, B. Mingilaitė, E. Survila, B. Valantinaitė, A. Peldavičiūtė, P. Steponavičius, V. Vaitiekūnas, G. Kindurytė, E. Pazukienė, J. Aleknavičius, P. Tarabilda, V. Petrulis, K. Buivydas, R. Matuzonytė, L. Šlapelienė, J. Vainauskas, A. Sirutytė and others.

    This is what A. Žmuidzinavičius wrote in his memoirs about his career at the Kaunas Art School: "I was full of strength and determination to do something good for my country, I never declined from any duties. I participated wherever I thought I could be useful. [...]. For me, as an educator, working with young people at school was a great pleasure”. A. Žmuidzinavičius has worked at the Kaunas School of Art for 14 years, staying out of scandals, instead, firmly expressing his opinion, tirelessly educating the younger generation and always remaining an active artist.

    Prepared by Daina Zozaitė

     
  • Colored deities of Genovaitė Jacėnaitė

    Colored deities of Genovaitė Jacėnaitė

    The Lithuanian Museum of Ethnocosmology holds the Baltic deities – ceramic sculptures donated by the artist Genovaitė Jacėnaitė (1933-2016).

    Genovaitė Jacėnaitė was born in Kuršėnai, where she graduated from high school. Although tempted by mathematics, she chose art for her studies; later on she said that this choice was the best in her life. In 1957, G. Jacėnaitė graduated from the Art Institute of Lithuanian (LDI) and worked there (later - Vilnius Academy of Arts) as a lecturer until 1999. Moreover, she was a methodologist of the Art Teachers Retraining Department of the Teachers' Professional Development Center since 1994.

    The ceramist was interested in people's characters and motions, so she drew ceramic sculptures and chose them as an object of creation rather than ceramic household items - dishes, vases, dinnerware sets - that were so popular at that time. She engaged in creative activities daily in her spare time and on weekends. In 1957, the ceramist started participating in national exhibitions of applied art and organized 33 personal exhibitions, her artworks are held by Mažeikiai Museum, Lithuanian National Museum of Art and M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum.

    The range of the artist's creation is very wide - from the depiction of domestic life scenes to delving into the old Lithuanian culture and its worldview.

    At the end of the 20th century, when G. Jacėnaitė became interested in the Baltic mythological world, "idols" appeared in her creation. The ceramicist adapted the images of Christian gods to the Baltic deities, who patronized certain areas of human life and nature.

    This exhibition presents colored figurines of ceramic deities.

     
  • Čiurlionis and Photography

    Čiurlionis and Photography

    In the summer of 1905 Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis made his unique photography album "Anapa". The photos were made at the foot of the Caucasus mountains, in the northern Black Sea coast, in Anapa, where Čiurlionis visited with his patrons the Wolman family. During this trip to the Caucasus and the Crimea, M. K. Čiurlionis created various photos, later the artist cropped and glued them to a small album and left inscription "Anapa.1905." on its canvas cover.
    Album consists of 48 photographs: 39 were taken by M. K. Čiurlionis himself. The artist captured images of the Black Sea coast, sailing boats, the local people and their everyday life, cemeteries, and other objects. In the album we can find not only pictures taken by Čiurlionis were he captured beautiful nature, people he met along the journey, furthermore, his fellow-travelers made some photographs of Čiurlionis during journey through Caucasus as well.
    Photos taken by Čiurlionis allow viewers to see everything through the artist's eyes, the images and the environment which inspired the artist’s creativity. Later the parallels of impressions of two marine landscapes - Baltic and Black sea and interpretations revived in his paintings and literary works.
    In the last decade, photos of the album "Anapa" received special attention in the context of M. K. Čiurlionis’ creation. For a long time the photos were kept in the Čiurlionis‘ family archive and only from 2000 they (photocopies of original) are publically displayed in the permanent exhibition at National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum in Kaunas, but also in retrospectives and other exhibitions dedicated to the artist abroad.

     
  • Dalia Genovaitė Mažeikytė

    Dalia Genovaitė Mažeikytė

    Born on 17 July 1943 in Roviškėlės, Rokiškis region. Painter, graphic artist. The history of Lithuanian graphic art will remember Dalia Genovaitė Mažeikytė as a painter of colours. After graduating from the Graphic Art Department of Vilnius Academy of Arts in 1968, she already exhibited etchings in 1970, supplemented by inclusions of other shades (the cycle "The Fans’ Mountain Rhythms"). Since then, almost all of Mažeikytė's graphic artworks, with the exception of some lithographs and drawings, have been colouristic. Her expressive and symbolically meaningful colours rise above the daily life, speak of the inseparable connection of man and nature with eternity, the opening spaces and their vibrations, the flow of time, the constant dynamics and change of life, the free flight of feelings, the wisdom and experience of renewal of spirit. It is an intellectual, poetic and spontaneous creation that evokes the intuitive gaze.

    Here is how the author speaks about her creation: 'For me, creation is a way of spiritual development and a way of life, and I have come to love the various techniques that allow me to reveal and reflect that unique presence of beauty, that fierce desire to improve, to understand the world, to know with a spiritual gaze that warmth of feelings, that heat, that space, that fire of thoughts. Through the various colours, their combinations, through the half-tones of colours, shapes, lines, spots, smaller or bigger structures, new and new layers and symbols and signs hidden in human nature are revealed. And then nothing matters anymore, how strong you are as a human being and as an artist, what matters is only that flight, that vertigo and joy, that freedom, that inner sense and vision that intertwines and becomes life in life and the force that holds the seam of life. There is no materiality of form, no painfulness, no shadows, no oppressive darkness, only colours, movements, symbolic formations, everything is joyful, there is no sadness, no significance, no wealth, no fear, no false pride".

    The paintings in the Lithuanian Museum of Ethnocosmology delight and surprise visitors.

    Prepared by Jolanta Slavinskienė, Museum Manager

     
  • Eugenija Šimkūnaitė: Recipes of Life

    Eugenija Šimkūnaitė: Recipes of Life

    Eugenija Šimkūnaitė - habilitated doctor of natural sciences (1993), herbalist, versatile personality, expert of Lithuanian nature and traditions, master of the word. She was called Doctor – and not only because of her science degree. Her parents, pharmacist Pranas Šimkūnas and merciful nurse Olga Lebedeva, met in Novorossiysk (Russia), there on 11th of March in 1920 their daughter Eugenija was born. Few years later family returned to Lithuania and settled in Tauragnai town (Utena district). The father established a pharmacy and Eugenija began to get used to working there and collecting herbs from the age of six.
    Eugenija was a child of nature. Therefore, her aunts, old herbalists, and other elders of the town, who knew healing herbs very well and knew how to prepare them, taught Eugenija from the young age. They told her secrets of nature, taught spells and incantations, taught to understand ancient songs and tales, to heal people with herbs.
    E. Šimkūnaitė graduated from Pharmacy Department in Faculty of Medicine at Vytautas Magnus University. Already during her studies, she knew that she would work as a researcher. This was also encouraged by her parents, who were very educated and who have travelled and seen the world.
    The biggest and constant love of E. Šimkūnaitė was herbs. She dedicated her life to cognition, research and multiplication of herbs. She also paid great attention to folk medicine, tales, folk songs and stories. For Eugenija, they were the wisdom of our ancestors and a reflection of the living reality.
    She gained a lot of experience and was happy to share it with public: gave lectures, wrote articles (has written more than 800), spoke on the radio and television. Halls full of fans of her talent, word and personality gathered to listen to the Doctor. And people could listen for her for hours. Eugenija helped unselfishly for everyone who needed her help – with bundle of herbs or advice. She has never taken any money for prescriptions, written by hundreds, for herbs or for treatment. She was sincere and straightforward, not looking for a word in her pocket and not sparing her knowledge. That is why she was so loved.
    “If we would believe, that we come to this earth to change it and leave it even more beautiful, and it would be easier for those around us to live because of our presence nearby, then the life of habilitated doctor Eugenija Šimkūnaitė would be the real example of that.” (Birutė Karnickienė, Chairwoman of Eugenija Šimkūnaitė Charity and Support Foundation). „If there would be a possibility to repeat everything, then most probably, even knowing the results, I would repeat everything as it was. And there were a lot – I was both shot and caught, I was drowned and burned, and I was rolling down the hills. But it wasn’t too bad. It was bearable”, - said E. Šimkūnaitė about her life.
    In the 1997, Eugenija Šimkūnaitė Charity and Support Foundation was established, the purpose of which is to support students studying pharmacy and herbal medicine, and work in the field of herbal research; the school in Tauragnai is named after her; in the 1999, E. Šimkūnaitė Memorial Apartment Museum was opened in Vilnius, Erfurto str. 4; in the 2012, the garden of E. Šimkūnaitė‘s favorite plants, cherries, was started to plant in Tauragnai; in the 2013, a memorial stone was unveiled in Vilnius, Erfurto str. 1 (sculptor Jonas Gencevičius).

    Written by Bronislava Juknevičienė, Local Lore Museum of Utena

     
  • From the hummingbird to the tapeworm

    From the hummingbird to the tapeworm

    Kaunas Tadas Ivanauskas Museum of Zoology is one of the oldest museums in Lithuania and one of the most visited places in Kaunas. It was established in 1919 by the initiative of professor Tadas Ivanauskas. The purpose of museum is to collect scientifically valuable natural heritage objects and help society to understand the natural world properly and become acquainted with the variety of fauna. Here you can find animals living in Lithuania and other countries of the world and learn about their varietal diversity, evolution, behaviour and the living environment. Visitors can find ~15,000 exhibits in the halls and there are ~250,000 exhibits in the scientific funds. Here are also 3 laboratories – Bioanalysis, Preparation of Biological Specimens and Taxidermy. The museum also owns the Lithuanian Bird Ringing Centre.
    The oldest stuffed animals and birds of the museum’s collection were made by Leonardas Ivanauskas, father of professor Tadas Ivanauskas, in 1859-1861. They were brought to museum from Belarus, Lida Region, former Lebiodka manor house. As a schoolboy, Tadas Ivanauskas started to collect insects. Later, while studying in the Universities of St. Petersburg and Sorbonne, he used to collect zoological material in Lithuania, Belarus and, in 1914 and 1917, he already started to organise the first expeditions to Murman, North Norway and islands of the Arctic Ocean.
    In 1919, in Kaunas, the professor established Nature Research Station giving the start to the museum. Here, the laboratory works were conducted and lectures were taught to students. After the establishment of the University of Lithuania in Kaunas, in 1922, the Museum of Zoology passed to the ownership of the university. Here, all researches related to the Lithuanian fauna were conducted, the relations with the universities of eighteen European countries, nature research stations and zoological museums were contracted, the exchange in exponents started to be used. In 1931, the Professor organized his most famous 3-month expedition to Brazil and the collections made of rainforest fauna brought from this expedition have considerably enriched the museum’s collection.
    In 1970, the museum was named after its establisher Tadas Ivanauskas. Since 1914, the museum has organised 42 expeditions to various regions around the globe: Turkmenia, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk, Brazil, Barents Sea and other places. Tadas Ivanauskas participated in twelve expeditions. Currently, the employees of museum organise zoological expeditions, participate in scientific conferences and contribute to various Lithuanian and international environmental projects.
    The zoological material brought from the expeditions is systemised, used for making stuffed animals, augment the museum’s exposition and scientific funds. The museum also benefits from the donated personal collections. The exponents arrive from various environmental organisations: the Lithuanian Zoo, nature research stations, live nature corners and private persons.
    The museum is the source of science and culture and performs various functions of introduction to nature, environmental, ecological and aesthetical education. It continues to write the chronicle for future generations encouraging to love nature through the acquaintance with it.

    Exposition begins with the oldest exhibit of museum made by Leonardas Ivanauskas – stuffed Pallas’s Sandgrouse.

     
  • JUOZAS DAMIJONAITIS, AN EDUCATOR AND THE AUTHOR OF POPULAR “The ABC PRIMER”

    JUOZAS DAMIJONAITIS, AN EDUCATOR AND THE AUTHOR OF POPULAR “The ABC PRIMER”

    J. Damijonaitis belongs to the generation of Lithuanian teachers and intellectuals who, during the oppression of tsarist Russia, were the first pioneers in the field of the establishment of the national school, fought for the right to teach children in their mother tongue. In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of his birth, it is worth remembering the merits of this prominent personality to Lithuanian education and culture.

    However, the textbooks for primary schools, published by J. Damijonaitis, had the greatest significance for the Lithuanian school and pedagogical development of thought. After 1905 J. Damijonaitis prepared textbooks of all main subjects for primary school such as “The ABC Primer” (1906), the cover of which was illustrated by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, “A Short Grammar of the Lithuanian Language” (1909, five editions) and “Arithmetic Textbook” (2 parts, 1909 and 1910). Later he wrote and published “A Book of Problems in Arithmetic” (3 parts, 1922–1923, twelve editions) and readings “Kindergarten” (1922).

    J. Damijonaitis' "The ABC Primer" was the first elementary element for school based on a writing-reading method. It had three sections: pre-alphabetical, alphabetical, and reading. This was not the case in others, previously released, elementary textbooks. Compiling elementary readings, the author strived to give a child as much knowledge as possible about the native land. The primer was full of articles on nature, geography, history, Lithuanian literature and folklore. In addition to reading, J. Damijonaitis presented various grammatical and logical exercises. Such methodology of compiling a textbook shows the author was interested in and followed the teaching methodology of primary reading of a well-known Russian pedagogue Konstantinas Ušinskis and applied it to the Lithuanian school in a clever and creative way. The textbook of Lithuanian grammar, published by J. Damijonaitis, was important because it spread the science and terminology of Lithuanian grammar compiled by Jonas Jablonskis and developed the methodology of teaching grammar. All grammar and arithmetic textbooks and readings written by J. Damijonaitis were very popular and widely used in interwar Lithuanian schools after the author's death (1926). Textbooks were constantly re-edited, corrected and new editions were released. The last edition of Lithuanian grammar was published in 1939.

    J. Damijonaitis and J. Jablonskis were close friends. Both were dedicated to science, Lithuanianism and the Lithuanian language. Thus, the fate determined that even after the death of both Lithuanian enlightened people, they were buried side by side in Petrašiūnai cemetery in Kaunas.

    The documents kept in the museum also testify to their friendship, one of the most valuable of which is a letter from J. Jablonskis to J. Damijonaitis. In the letter, the author asked J. Damijonaitis to help find his acquaintance Zofija Jucevičaitė-Nečajevienė a job as a teacher in any Polish or Russian school. "She urgently needs work (and food)", wrore J. Jablonskis. In the letter J. Jablonskis also mentioned that it would be good to organize Lithuanian language courses for those teachers who returned from Russia.

    The life and works of J. Damijonaitis testify to his great dedication to his field of activity, and especially to the great respect and attention to the Lithuanian language. J. Damijonaitis took care that Lithuanian textbooks reached the children of Lithuanians living in the USA. In 1921 in Chicago Lithuanian publishing company “Friend” published J. Damijonaitis' "Short Grammar of the Lithuanian Language" (reprinted in 1914).

    J. Damijonaitis' life was not long, but it was very meaningful. Through his pedagogical activity, he earned great respect and authority not only as an inspector of Kaunas primary schools, an author of textbooks for schools, a public figure, but also as an active nurturer of the native Lithuanian language. It is not a coincidence that in Kaunas, Aleksotas, one of the streets where he lived was named after him. It is J. Damijonaičio Street.

     
  • Landscapes from the collections of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art

    Landscapes from the collections of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art

    Landscape is a work of painting or graphics that depicts a landscape which can be natural or influenced by a person. Landscapes are most often composed of forests, meadows, mountains, water, sky, ruins, city, various times of the day or natural phenomena. In the paintings you can recreate real or fictional places.
    The four most common types of landscapes are divided according to what they represent: puristic – nature, marinistic – water motifs, urbanic – cities or villages, and animalistic – animals.
    Elements of the landscapes were also found in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, ancient Greek wall paintings and decorative pieces of art – mythological, batal (battle or war) or hunting genres of composition. In the 16th century, the landscape began to exist as an independent genre, and the significance of its status was made more significant by the ideas of the Reformation, theories of the landscape set by L.B. Alberti and Leonardo da Vinci which provide principles of perspective, and depth of space. In Lithuania, the landscape as an independent genre began to develop only at the end of the 18th century.

     
  • Life of Lithuanian residents in World War I photographs

    Life of Lithuanian residents in World War I photographs

    The German Empire army entered the Russian Empire in the spring of 1915, and by the autumn it had occupied most of the territory on which later the independent state of Lithuania was founded. In the occupied territory of the Russian Empire, the chief of the army of the Eastern Front of the German Empire established an administrative territorial unit - Oberost. The occupation of the German Empire lasted for almost three years.
    War correspondents and the soldiers themselves captured the events and the environment at the time. Often Lithuania and Lithuanians were not perceived as a separate national or cultural unit by the soldiers of the German Empire. The whole country for them was just a frontier of the Russian Empire, with Russian and Jewish populations. However, Lithuania and Lithuanians can be distinguished from the place names mentioned in the photographs.
    While visiting the occupied cities and villages of the Russian Empire, German imperial soldiers watched the environment, its inhabitants, their customs and their everyday life. They told about this to their relatives in letters and photos. Lithuania, in the memoirs and photographs taken by the soldiers of the German Empire, is a messy, poor and backward country, with nature full of untapped resources and people as timid and naïve “savage”. Common motif in photographs: primitive wooden houses with thatched roofs and poorly dressed, often barefoot people near them.
    The soldiers of the German Empire did not shy away from commemorating the humble peasants. However, the life of the Lithuanian population did not improve during the German occupation. The occupiers were very strict, constantly demanding more and more locals, who were viewed only as service personnel of the German Empire.
    Kaunas 9th Fort Museum offers to get acquainted with photographs reflecting the life of the Lithuanian population during the First World War. The photographs presented in the virtual exhibition reveal the life of the long-suffering tsarist occupation of Russia and the disasters of the First World War just before the restoration of a free and independent state of Lithuania.

     
  • NIGHT VISIONS: Paintings from Mykolas Žilinskas (1904–1992) Collection

    NIGHT VISIONS: Paintings from Mykolas Žilinskas (1904–1992) Collection

    Dedicated to the Museum Night event, this exhibition introduces Western European paintings of the 18th – 20th centuries donated to Lithuania by an art collector Mykolas Žilinskas (1904–1992). Actually, artworks inspired by charms and mysteries of the night are rarely displayed in the gallery halls.
    As a background, a motif of the night in Western European art dates back to the 14th century, but as a separate and independent genre, the nocturne spread widely in Dutch art of the 17th century. A proper illustration of this is Landscape of the Night by a follower of one of the most famous and subtle painters of night views Aert van der Neer. In the 19th-century art, the night was an important source of inspiration for romanticists who were liable to impart on their images tunes of sublime, dreamy, mystical, sometimes even sacred mood.
    Worth mentioning in this context are symbolists – another group of the nocturne worshippers active at the junction of the 19th – 20th centuries. However, the motif of the night in their works usually embodies the connotation of mystery, darkness, fear, evil or sorrow. Whatsoever, the representatives of both trends – transcendental romanticists and striving to escape from the reality symbolists interpret the night as a perfect means to create an imaginary world of dreams, presentiments or fairy tales. Contrary to them, the image of the night for artists realists of the 19th – 20th centuries served to convey its spontaneous beauty.
    These engaging night views not only reveal the multi-faceted nature of the night, they illustrate M. Žilinskas’ personal taste. Whatever piece of art – an impressive canvas by a famous painter or a small-format painting created by an anonymous or little-known author – it surely excited the collector’s heart and soul.


    Irmantė Šarakauskienė

     
  • Postcards painted by Jokubas Dagys (XX century 7-9 decades)

    Postcards painted by Jokubas Dagys (XX century 7-9 decades)

    Famous Lithuanian painter, sculptor, poetry Jokubas Dagys borned in Slepsciai village. In 1935 years he became member of Lithuanian painters union and participated in Lithuanian painters exhibitions. 1944 years family of Jokubas Dagys left to west.
    Jokubas Dagys works reflect the love of the homeland and his survivals. His works of art are full of poetry and folclor characters. He created more than thousand works of art such as sculptures, paintings, bas-reliefs and so on. He signatured his paintings with nickname Dagys. Creativity of this person was appreciated by canadians art critics. His works are protected Siauliai "Ausra" museum, Telsiai "Alka"museum, Lithuania art museum, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Royal Canadian Academy of Art, Toront, Otava, Kvebek and other museums. 1967 years was published his album in enlish “Dagys Sculpture and paintings.“
    Part of his creative heritage protected in Birzai regional museum "Sela". In this museum collections are some sculptures, pictutes, books and other exhibits. In virtual exhibition is shown posctcards which were painted by Jokubas in Dagys in 20 th centuries seventh-ninenth decades.

     
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