Bronius Vyšniauskas

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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.

Construction and industry on the Green Bridge in Vilnius
Pushkin

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

Commons : Bronius Vyšniauskas  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Regina Urbonienė: Tarybų Lietuvos enciklopedija (Band 4): Bronius Vyšniauskas . Vyriausioji enciklopedijų redakcija, Vilnius 1988.
  2. ↑ Stasys Budrys: Bronius Vyšniauskas . Vaga, Vilnius 1969.
  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).
  5. ↑ Kaunas - Monument to the Four Communists by Napoleonas Petrulis and Bronius Vysniauskas (accessed December 13, 2016).
personal data
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