Gediminas Jokubonis ( Gediminas Albino Jokubonis , lit. Gediminas Jokūbonis ) ( 1927 - 2006 ) - Lithuanian Soviet sculptor. People's Artist of the Lithuanian SSR ( 1977 ). People's Artist of the USSR ( 1987 ). Laureate of the Lenin Prize ( 1963 ).
| Gediminas Jokubonis | |
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| Gediminas jokūbonis | |
| Birth name | Gediminas Jokubonis |
| Date of Birth | March 8, 1927 |
| Place of Birth | Kupiskis , Lithuania |
| Date of death | October 8, 2006 (aged 79) |
| Place of death | Vilnius , Lithuania |
| Citizenship |  the USSR Lithuania |
| Genre | sculptor |
| Study | |
| Style | socialist realism |
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Biography
Since 1946 he studied sculpture at the Kaunas Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts. In 1952 he graduated from the Vilnius Art Institute of the Lithuanian SSR (now the Academy of Art ). Since 1965 he taught at the same institute; Professor ( 1974 ). Full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR ( 1983 ).
Creativity
The creativity of Jokubonis is characterized by a desire for generalized laconic forms, an expressive silhouette, and compact composition. His most famous works include the sculpture “Mother” of the Pirčiupiai Memorial Ensemble ( 1960 ; State Prize of the Lithuanian SSR, 1960 ; Lenin Prize , 1963 ).
The author of sculptural monuments to V.I. Lenin in Moscow ( 1967 ), Klaipeda ( 1976 ), Panevezys ( 1983 ), the famous opera singer Kipras Pyatrauskas in Vilnius at the Opera and Ballet Theater ( 1974 ), the Lithuanian poet Maironis in Kaunas ( 1977 ), Polish the poet Adam Mickiewicz in Vilnius ( 1984 ; architect V. Chekanauskas ), a sculptural composition in the geographical center of Europe (in the Vilnius region, 26 km from Vilnius towards Moletai , near the village of Purushkiai and the Barnot settlement, there is a column of white granite , the top of which the star crown surrounds; 2004 [1] ), as well as sculptural portraits, tombstones, medals.
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Vilnius University ( 1979 ), Jokubonis created a high relief of Lithuanian historian Simonas Daukantas at the University Science Museum, now in the Church of St. John [2] . On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the release of the “Catechism” by Martinas Mazhvidas, the sculptor created a bronze statue of the Lithuanian first printer, opened on January 9, 1997 in the foyer of the second floor of the Lithuanian National Library named after Martinas Mazhvidas [3] [4] [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Lithuania - the geographical center of Europe (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment June 28, 2007. Archived March 27, 2012.
- ↑ Monuments to K. Sirvydas and S. Daukantas . Vilnius University architectural ensemble . Vilnius University Library (2004). Date of treatment December 28, 2016.
- ↑ Martyno Mažvydo skulptūra Lietuvos nacionalinėje M. Mažvydo bibliotekoje Archived July 9, 2007 on the Wayback Machine (lit.)
- ↑ Martynas-Mažvydas-Standbild in der Martynas-Mažvydas-Nationalbibliothek Litauens (German)
- ↑ [Lithuanian Art in 1960-80 http://visart.info/DR/soc.htm ] . Media Encyclopedia Fine Arts .
Literature
- Jokubonis, Gediminas // Lithuania. Brief Encyclopedia. - Vilnius: The main edition of the encyclopedias of the Lithuanian SSR, 1989. - S. 283. - 672 p. - 22,000 copies.
- S. Budrys. Gediminas Jokūbonis. Vilnius, 1963.