Antanas Kmelyauskas ( lit. Antanas Kmieliauskas ; 1932 , village of Olandjärnė, Butrimona parish, Alytus district ) - Lithuanian artist, sculptor, graphic artist; Professor of Vilnius Academy of Arts , winner of the Lithuanian National Prize.
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| Birth name | Antanas kmieliauskas |
| Date of Birth | March 8, 1932 (87 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Olländärne village ( Alytus district ) |
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Biography
In 1939-1947 he studied at the elementary school in Butrimonis and at the gymnasium in Yeznas , in 1947-1949 he continued his studies at the gymnasium in Butrimonis . In 1949 - 1951 he studied at the Kaunas Secondary Art School; graduated with a gold medal. In 1951 - 1957 he studied painting at the Lithuanian State Art Institute in Vilnius (now Vilnius Academy of Art ).
Since 1957 he participated in exhibitions. He became a candidate member of the Union of Artists of Lithuania , but in 1960 he was expelled for creating (commissioned by the prelate Ceslovas Krivaitis ) a sculpture of St. Christopher , installed in the courtyard of St. Nicholas Church in Vilnius . The monument, however, survived; Ergali Gera ’s short story “Kazyukas” ( 1994 ) includes a brief description that gives an idea of how impressive this statue of Kmelyauskas can make:
They looked at the monument to Christopher, the patron saint of the city, hidden in the depths of the cozy courtyard of the Vilna Curia: the saint carried on his shoulder the baby Christ and something like a mighty antique torso, that’s what reminded him of either a centaur or a loshak : a shaggy beast man saddled up new faith. [one]
He earned his livelihood by manufacturing tombstones for individual orders. In addition, he taught drawing and sculpture at the Vilnius Children's Art School ( 1962 - 1979 ).
The gold medal awarded to the artist at the bookplate competition of the library of San Vito al Tagliamento in Italy in 1974 (but not received by him) influenced the fact that Kmelyauskas was admitted to the graphics section of the Lithuanian Union of Artists in 1975 .
In 1977, he began to teach plastic anatomy at the Art Insight, and later taught drawing. Since 1994, a professor.
Creativity
In the Lithuanian press, he is described as a universal artist, since he works in the field of easel and monumental painting , graphics and sculpture .
In the 1960s and 1970s he painted paintings, including portraits of prominent figures in science, music, theater, and the Catholic Church of Lithuania. The author of decorative sculptures, tombstones, prints and bookplates. For the first time, the ex-libris Kmelyauskas was exhibited at an exhibition in Czechoslovakia in 1966 . He created over 450 bookplates [2] , exhibited in Poland , Czechoslovakia, Germany and other countries.
The author of the frescoes in the bookstore of Vilnius University “Littera” ( 1978 ) and in the administration hall ( 1983 ), in the Kaunas “Green Pharmacy” ( “ioalioji vaistinė” ), in the hall of the Jesuit gymnasium in Vilnius ( 2003 ) and many others.
The author of the altar in the Klaipeda church of the Virgin Mary of the Queen of Peace , a monument on the grave of the poet Jonas Aistis ( Rumšiškės ), a monument to Lithuanian conscripts who died in Afghanistan in 1979 - 1989 ( 2006 ) [3] , and many other sculptural works.
On October 26, 2003, a monument to Vytautas the Great was consecrated in Kärnava , made by Kmelyauskas by order of the prelate Cheslovas Krivaitis. [four]
He created over 60 granite sculptures with a total weight of about 20 tons and more than 800 graphic works; the total area of frescoes he wrote exceeds 1500 m² [5]
Awards and titles
He was awarded prizes, medals, prizes of international bookplate exhibitions.
In 1994, he was awarded the National Prize of Lithuania for frescoes in the Chapel of Rainiai .
Notes
- ↑ Ger, Ergali Kazyukas . Contemporary Russian literature with Vyacheslav Kuritsyn . Vyacheslav Kuritsyn. Date of treatment September 8, 2009. Archived February 26, 2012.
- ↑ Hans Dieter Köhler. Ekslibrisas ir Antanas Kmieliauskas (lit.)
- ↑ Monument to Lithuanians who died in Afghanistan will be unveiled in Vilnius Archival copy of September 28, 2007 on the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Kernavėje pašventintas Vytauto Didžiojo paminklas Archived November 15, 2007 on the Wayback Machine (lit.)
- ↑ Liana Binkauskienė. Dailininkas prof. A. Kmieliauskas albumą pristatė šalia savo freskų (lit.)
Literature
- Antanas Kmieliauskas: skulptūra, freska, tapyba, grafika. Dailininkas ir sudarytojas Rimantas Dichavičius; teksto autorė Neringa Markauskaitė; į anglų kalbą vertė Sigutė Jurkuvienė, Aldona Matulytė. 2-asis patais. ir papild. leid. Vilnius: UAB "Daigai", 2003.320 p .: iliustr. ISBN 9986-767-11-3 .