Antanas Žukauskas

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Antanas Žukauskas (2009)

Antanas Žukauskas (born on 9. March 1939 in Pienionys , anykščiai district municipality , Utena district ) is a Lithuanian sculptor , engraver and graphic artist .

Career

Anūkas in the Klaipėda Sculpture Park (1985)
Sculptures at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater , Vilnius (1989)

Antanas Žukauskas grew up as the youngest of three brothers in a farming family in the village of Bikūnai near Anykščiai , his older sister died in 1942. He attended a grammar school in Anykščiai from 1948 to 1959 . From 1960 to 1966 he studied sculpture with Juozas Kėdainis at the Vilnius Art Academy . From 1966 to 1970 Žukauskas worked for the Ministry of Culture of the Lithuanian SSR . He has been a freelance artist since 1970 and a member of the Lithuanian Artists Association since 1974 .

Since 1964, Antanas Žukauskas has participated in numerous art exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. His work can be found in numerous museums, including the Lithuanian Art Museum , the Lithuanian National Museum , the Foundation of the Lithuanian Artists Association, the Vydūnas Museum in Detmold , the Vatican Museums , the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture in Chicago .

Žukauskas has made a large number of sculptures and reliefs for public spaces. These include the sculptural decorations of the Lithuanian National Theater of Opera and Ballet in Vilnius , numerous monuments and sculptures, tombstones and reliefs.

In 1984 Antanas Žukauskas made a medal for the 500th anniversary of the death of the Lithuanian national saint Casimir of Lithuania with his portrait on the picture side and a Marian prayer on the back. This medal was the only official medal with a religious theme in the Soviet Union . Žukauskas designed several coins for the Lithuanian central bank Lietuvos bankas . His most famous designs outside of Lithuania are the face of the Lithuanian euro coins with the knight Vytis (“the pursuer”) from the Lithuanian coat of arms .

Antanas Žukauskas is married to the lawyer Elena Žukauskienė, who was born in 1949, and the couple have a son and two daughters.

Works (selection)

sculpture

Coins and medals

  • Coins designed by Antanas Žukauskas I

  • Silver coin worth 50 Lit on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of independence (picture side, 1995)

  • 50 Litų silver coin, 120th birthday of Čiurlionis (back, 1995)

  • 50 Litų silver coin, Mindaugas (picture side, 1996);

  • 50 Litų silver coin, Gediminas (picture side, 1996);

  • Lithuanian 1 litas circulation coin (1998 to 2014)

  • Coins designed by Antanas Žukauskas II

  • Lithuanian course coin for 2 litai (1998-2014)

  • Lithuanian course coin for 1 litai (1998-2014)

  • Lithuanian course coin at 5 cents (since 2015)

  • Lithuanian 50 cent coin (since 2015)

  • Lithuanian 2 euro circulation coin (since 2015)

Awards

literature

  • Elena Žukauskienė: Antanas Žukauskas. Sculpture, koliažai, medaliai, monetos . Sapnų sala, Vilnius 2002, ISBN 9955-507-05-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Antanas Žukauskas , Anykščiai city ​​website , January 26, 2014, accessed on December 12, 2018.
  2. ↑ Antanas Žukauska's website of the Lithuanian Artists Association , accessed December 12, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Žukauskas, Antanas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian sculptor, medalist and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Pienionys , anykščiai district municipality , Utena