Jonas Mulokas

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Jonas Mulokas (born February 18, 1907 in Jusiagiri, Rokiškis district ; † May 31, 1983 in Santa Monica , USA ) was an architect and engineer .

Life

career

chapel

From 1927 Mulokas attended the 1918 - Lithuania had been Russian-dominated since the final partition of Poland and had declared its independence from the Russian Empire - founded by the association "Saulés" in Rokiškis and studied from 1935 in Kaunas at the Vytautas Magnus University . At the same time, he served his military service in the Lithuanian Army from 1935 to 1937 . He completed his postgraduate studies at the war school . From 1937 he was employed as an architect in the department for military housing in Kaunas. TheChapel on the cemetery of Židikai that in their basement remains of the deceased here in 1930 writer šatrijos ragana were laid, was designed in 1940 by him.

Crown of St. Casimir

In 1941, Mulokas had worked as a construction manager in the Vilnius Housing Department . The church he designed in Berčiūnai was blown up in 1957 . In the same year he designed and built the " crown ", a symbol of Lithuanian independence, which was destroyed in 1796 , on the dome of St. Casimir .

The Baltic States were first occupied and then annexed by the Soviet Union at the beginning of the Second World War . The invading Wehrmacht drove them out and was welcomed by their inhabitants as their liberators . When the Red Army returned to Lithuania in 1944 , numerous Lithuanians fled from them to avoid alleged persecution .

In 1944 Mulokas fled as a Displaced Person to Augsburg with DP camps in Hochfeld and Haunstetten and, when these were closed in 1948, to Kriegshaber . Augsburg became an important center of Lithuanian culture in Germany . He worked as a teacher at the Lithuanian High School . During his years in Germany he created around 700 chapels, crosses and monuments with folk art motifs . For example, he designed the Lithuanian oak cross erected in 1945 on the corner of Alter Postweg and Schertlinstrasse or the Lithuanian memorial stone in the Vorwerker Friedhof in Lübeck , inaugurated in 1948 .

  • Lübeck memorial stone
  • HL Back then - Vorwerker Friedhof - Lithuanian war cemetery - 1.jpg
  • HL Back then - Vorwerker Friedhof - Lithuanian war cemetery - 4.jpg
  • HL Back then - Vorwerker Friedhof - Lithuanian war cemetery - 3.jpg
  • HL Back then - Vorwerker Friedhof - Lithuanian war cemetery - 2.jpg

In 1949 Mulokas emigrated to the USA . In 1956 and 1957 he was chairman of the American Society of Lithuanian Engineers and Architects in Chicago and since 1958 a member of the court of honor . From 1962 to 1964 he was a board member of the Čiurlionis Art Gallery . As a member of the American Society of Lithuanian Engineers and Architects, he temporarily held the office of President of the association's local association.

Together with his son, Mulokas founded the architectural office Mulokas & Mulokas in Santa Monica in 1977 .

The Fine Arts Club in California named Mulokas its chairman in 1979.

family

When his son Rimvydas Eugene, called Ray, born in 1942, graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign in 1964, he became a licensed architect in New York in 1972 . The family moved to California and Ray became President and CEO of Mulokas & Mulokas Construction .

Projects

His projects show motifs from monumental architecture and folk art.

Lithuanian churches

It is often seen as the architect's main work. Mulokas received first prize for the church from the American Architects Union . The New York Times named the church one of the best New York architectural works of the year in its December 2, 1962 issue.
  • 1963–1964 Reconstruction of the Holy Cross Lithuanian Roman Catholic Church to celebrate the golden jubilee of the parish in Dayton (Ohio)

Others

  • Youth Center and Independence Monument (1974)
  • Residential houses
  • Memorial buildings

monument

The Vilnius Expert Council on Architecture and Urban Planning disapproved of the erection of a stylized 17-meter-high chapel column, donated by the Mulokas family, near the Seimas . The proposals submitted envisaged the erection of a memorial to the exile architect Jonas Mulokas in the palace of the Seimas.

Web links

Commons : Jonas Mulokas  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Until 1795 Lithuania was a grand duchy.
  2. ^ Lithuanian cross inaugurated in Augsburg
  3. ↑ Anat Geva: Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture , 2018 Routledge, 316 pages.
  4. ↑ Global true Lithuania
  5. ↑ Queens and its modern-ethnic church
  6. ↑ Welcome to Holy Cross (Engl.)
  7. ↑ Darius Linartas
personal data
SURNAME Mulokas, Jonas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Jusiagiri
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1983
Place of death Santa Monica