Bernardas Bučas

Bernarda Bučas ( Russian Бернардас Бучас ; born December 5 ^{. Jul} / 18th December  1903 ^greg. In Naurašiliai in Panevėžys District Municipality ; † 21st December 1979 in Kaunas ) was a Lithuanian - Russian sculptor , painter and graphic artist .

Life

Bučas, the eldest child of a large family of small farmers, attended school in Smilgiai and from 1920–1926 the Juozas-Balčikonis-Gymnasium Panevėžys . There, the writer Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė taught Lithuanian and international literature and the sculptor Juozas Zikaras taught fine arts . 1926–1928 Bučas studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and 1928–1929 at the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles . In 1930 he returned to Lithuania and settled in Panevėžys after his military service in 1932 . There he worked as a freelance artist and took part in exhibitions.

In 1932 Bučas created the funerary monument for the writer Liudvika Didžiulienė in Griežionėlės. 1933-1935 he made three bas-reliefs for the Agrarbank building in Kaunas and in 1934 the bas-relief for the tombstone of the poet and theologian Maironis in the Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul in Kaunas. The grave monument for the teacher V. Būtėnienės in Panevėžys was made in 1935, as was the sower (2nd version 1939).

In 1936 Bučas received a scholarship from the Lithuanian Ministry of Education, with which he studied in Paris until 1937 . There he met the poet Salomėja Nėris , whom he married on December 12, 1936. After returning to Lithuania, they settled in Kaunas-Palemonas. There he built a house himself and laid out a large garden around it. Their son Saulius, who later became a sculptor, was born on December 23, 1937. 1940–1941 he taught decorative and applied arts at the commercial college in Kaunas.

In 1937 Bučas created the bust of the writer and Catholic priest Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas in Svėdasai. In 1938 the bust of the engineer Petras Vileišis followed in Kaunas and in 1939 that of the publicist Martynas Jankus in Kaunas.

Agriculture on the Green Bridge in Vilnius

When Lithuania, the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic had become Bučas was for many years a member of the Arts Council of Combine Dailės of Decorative and Applied Arts in Kaunas. With his second wife Ona Bučienė, he had daughters Rasa and Aušrelė. His brother Kasimeras was an architect .

Bučas created a grave monument for Feliksas and Magdalena Siručus in Liudvinavas in 1948. For the rebuilt Green Bridge in Vilnius from the old town to Šnipiškės , he designed the Agriculture group together with Petras Vaivada in 1951 , which in 2015 together with the other three sculptures Construction and Industry by Napoleonas Petrulis and Bronius Vyšniauskas , On Peace Watch by Bronius Pundzius and Student Youth by Juozas Mikėnas as symbols of Soviet rule in the style of Socialist Realism was removed from the bridge. In 1955, Bučas created the memorial for Salomėja Nėris in Kaunas and in 1970 the bust of Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė in Panevėžys.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bučas Bernardas (Lithuanian, accessed December 14, 2016).
2. ↑ Giedrė Jankevičiūtė: Bernardas Bučas ( Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija , Volume III) . Vilnius 2003.
3. ↑ Reuters: Last major Soviet statues come down in Lithuanian capital (accessed November 18, 2016).
4. ↑ The Baltic Times: Lithuanians angered by new Russian coins with Soviet-era Green Bridge sculptures (accessed November 18, 2016).