Bronius Vyšniauskas
Bronius Vyšniauskas ( Russian Бро́нюс Вишня́ускас ; born May 1, 1923 in Gelnai in the district of Kėdainiai ; † June 27, 2015 in Vilnius ) was a Lithuanian - Soviet sculptor and university teacher .
Life
Vyšniauskas studied at the Institute for Applied and Decorative Arts in Kaunas with a degree in 1947 and then took part in exhibitions. In 1948 he became a lecturer at the Vilnius Art Institute, which in 1951 became the Vilnius State Art Institute of the Lithuanian SSR . In 1978 he was appointed professor.
Vyšniauskas made portrait busts of Kazimieras Būga and others. For the rebuilt Green Bridge in Vilnius from the Old Town to Šnipiškės , he and his older colleague Napoleonas Petrulis created the Construction and Industry group in 1952 , which in 2015 together with the other three sculptures Auf Friedenswacht by Bronius Pundzius , Agriculture by Bernardas Bučas and Petras Vaivada and Student Youth of Juozas Mikėnas was removed from the bridge as symbols of Soviet rule in the style of Socialist Realism . Vyšniauska's bust of Pushkin (1955) is in the park next to the Pushkin Literature Museum in Vilnius. With Petrulis he designed the small sculptures A Moment of Peace (1957) and Mother with Child (1965). In 1959 he made the sculptures Ratnyčėlė and Motherhood on behalf of Druskininkai .
In 1972 Vyšniauskas designed sculptures and reliefs for the memorial of the liberation of Kryžkalnis ( Raseiniai Rajongemeinde ) by the Red Army , which has not been preserved. The group The Four Communists ( Rapolas Čarnas , Kazys Giedrys , Juozas Greifenbergeris , Karolis Požėla ) he created again together with Petrulis in 1973 for installation in Kaunas. You are now in the local Grūtas Park .
Honors
- Honored Artist (1963)
- State Prize of the Lithuanian SSR (1973)
- People's Artist of the Lithuanian SSR (1973)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Regina Urbonienė: Tarybų Lietuvos enciklopedija (Band 4): Bronius Vyšniauskas . Vyriausioji enciklopedijų redakcija, Vilnius 1988.
- ↑ Stasys Budrys: Bronius Vyšniauskas . Vaga, Vilnius 1969.
- ↑ Reuters: Last major Soviet statues come down in Lithuanian capital (accessed November 18, 2016).
- ↑ The Baltic Times: Lithuanians angered by new Russian coins with Soviet-era Green Bridge sculptures (accessed November 18, 2016).
- ↑ Kaunas - Monument to the Four Communists by Napoleonas Petrulis and Bronius Vysniauskas (accessed December 13, 2016).
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SURNAME | Vyšniauskas, Bronius |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Вишняускас, Бронюс (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian sculptor and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1923 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gelnai, Kėdainiai District Parish |
DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 2015 |
Place of death | Vilnius |