Bronius Pundzius

Bronius Pundzius ( Russian Бронюс Пундзюс ; * September 15 ^July / September 28,  1907 ^greg. In Pievėnai in the Mažeikiai district ; † April 11, 1959 in Vilnius ) was a Lithuanian - Russian sculptor and university teacher .

Life

Pundzius studied at the Kaunas Art School from 1926 to 1929 until he was expelled as one of the leaders of a student strike. In 1933 he received a state scholarship, with which he studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris , graduating in 1938. 1940–1941 he worked as a lecturer at the Kaunas art school. After the German-Soviet War , Pundzius taught again in Kaunas at the Institute for Applied and Decorative Arts, where he was appointed professor in 1947. From 1951 he taught at the Vilnius State Art Institute of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic .

Darius and Girėnas on the Puntukas boulder

The Tempest (Memorial to the 1200 Guardsmen in Kaliningrad)

Watch for peace at the Green Bridge in Vilnius

Pundzius works have been shown at exhibitions since 1930. He created portrait busts of Mikas Petrauskas (1932, in front of the State Theater in Kaunas), Maironis (1933) and Lenin (1940). He designed funerary monuments in Helsinki (1933). His project for a monument to Darius and Girėnas won first prize in a competition in 1937, but was never realized. In 1937 he created the monumental sculpture Three Giants in Kaunas. In 1943 he chiseled the relief of Darius and Girėnas in the Puntukas find near Anykščiai . In 1946 he created the bronze sculpture Der Sturm for Meltschakow's memorial of the 1200 guardsmen of the 11th Guard Army for those who fell in the storm on Königsberg in what would later be Kaliningrad on Gwardeiski Prospect . For the rebuilt Green Bridge in Vilnius from the Old Town to Šnipiškės , he created the group Auf Friedenswacht in 1952 , which in 2015 together with the other three sculptures Agriculture by Bernardas Bučas , The Student Youth by Juozas Mikėnas and Industry and Construction by Bronius Vyšniauskas and Napoleonas Petrulis was removed from the bridge as symbols of Soviet rule in the style of Socialist Realism .

Honors

• Stalin Prize

Individual evidence

1. ^ S. Budrys: Bronius Pundzius . Vilnius 1969.
2. ↑ P. Aleksandravičius: Bronius Pundzius in: XX a. Lietuvių dailės istorija, 1900-1940 . Vaga, Vilnius 1983, pp. 180-189 .
3. ↑ Ирина Кожевникова: Памятник 1200 гвардейцам в Калининграде (accessed November 18, 2016).
4. ↑ Reuters: Last major Soviet statues come down in Lithuanian capital (accessed November 18, 2016).
5. ↑ The Baltic Times: Lithuanians angered by new Russian coins with Soviet-era Green Bridge sculptures (accessed November 18, 2016).

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