Gediminas Jokūbonis

Gediminas Jokūbonis (born March 8, 1927 in Kupiškis , † October 8, 2006 in Vilnius ) was a Lithuanian sculptor and university professor .

Life

Jokūbonis began studying sculpture at the Institute for Applied and Decorative Arts in Kaunas in 1946 . In 1952 he graduated from the Vilnius Art Institute of the Lithuanian SSR . In his works, simple forms, expressive outlines and compact arrangements were important to him. He became known through his mother from Pirčiupiai (1960) in the Pirčiupiai memorial in the Rajong municipality of Varėna , which commemorates the massacre of the Wehrmacht in Pirčiupiai in 1944. For this work Jokūbonis received the State Prize of the Lithuanian SSR and the Lenin Prize.

In 1965 Jokūbonis became a lecturer at the Vilna Art Institute and a member of the CPSU . He was appointed professor in 1974. In 1983 he became a member of the Art Academy of the USSR .

Jokūbonis created monuments to Lenin in Moscow (1967), Klaipėda (1976) and Panevėžys (1983), for the opera singer Kipras Petrauskas (in Vilnius in front of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater , 1974), the Lithuanian poet Maironis (Kaunas, 1977) , the Soviet officer and author Vytautas Putna ( Molėtai , 1980), the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz (Vilnius, 1984, architect Vytautas Edmundas Čekanauskas ), the poet Antanas Vienažindys ( Mažeikiai , 1987), the Grand Duke Vytautas ( Birštonas , 1998) and the Poet and Bishop Antanas Baranauskas ( Seinai , 1999). He designed Europe's geographic center (between Vilnius and Molėtai, 2004). He also created portrait sculptures , grave monuments and medals . For the 400th anniversary of the University of Vilnius (1979) he made the skin relief of the Lithuanian historian Simonas Daukantas (now in the Šv. Jono Krikštytojo ir Šv. Jono apaštalo ir evangelisto church in the old town of Vilnius ). For the 450th anniversary of the publication of the catechism of the Prussian pastor Martynas Mažvydas , he created his statue , which was placed in the Martynas Mažvydas National Library in Lithuania in 1997 .

Honors

• State Prize of the Lithuanian SSR (1960)
• Lenin Prize (1963)
• People's Artist of the Lithuanian SSR (1977)
• People's Artist of the USSR (1987)

Works

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  Mother of Pirciupiu

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  Antanas Baranauskas

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  Martynas Mažvydas

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  Europe's geographic center

Web links

Commons : Gediminas Jokūbonis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lietuviškoji tarybinė enciklopedija : Gediminas Jokūbonis.
2. ↑ Gediminas Jokūbonis in memoriam (accessed December 23, 2016).
3. ↑ Central Europe Lithuania (accessed December 23, 2016).
4. ↑ Martynas Mažvydas statue in the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania (accessed December 23, 2016).