Juozas Mikėnas

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Juozas Mikenas ( Russian Юозас Микенас * January 30 . Jul / 12. February  1901 greg. In Skārdupītes at Aknīste ; † 24. October 1964 in Vilnius ) was a Lithuanian - Russian sculptor and university lecturer .

Life

Mikėnas studied 1922–1926 at the art school in Kaunas and then from 1927–1931 at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris .

1931–1940 Mikėnas taught at the Kaunas Art School. In 1935 he created the marble - bas The mother and from 1937 to 1938, the plaster figure , the woodcarvers ( Čiurlionis -Kunstmuseum Kaunas). For the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937 he created the reliefs on the Baltic States Pavilion and in 1938 the sculpture The Warrior on the bell tower of the Vytautas Museum in Kaunas. He created the plaster sculpture Lithuania for the 1939 New York World's Fair .

Bronze sculpture The Victory in Kaliningrad

In 1940, after Lithuania was annexed to the Soviet Union , Mikėnas moved to the Vilnius Art Institute (until 1941). During the German-Soviet War he taught at the Art Academy of the USSR in Leningrad . After the war he returned to Kaunas as a professor at the Institute for Decorative and Applied Arts (1946–1951). One of his students was Konstantinas Bogdanas . In 1946, Mikėnas created the bronze sculptures The Tempest and The Victory for Meltschakow's memorial of the 1200 guardsmen of the 11th Guard Army for the fallen in the storm on Königsberg in what would later be Kaliningrad on Gwardeiski Prospect, as well as the reliefs for the obelisk . Then he created the bronze memorial for the Lithuanian partisan Marytė Melnikaitė in Zarasai (1947–1955).

From 1951 Mikėnas taught again at the Vilnius Art Institute. In 1952 the group The Student Youth of a Student was established on the rebuilt Green Bridge in Vilnius- Šnipiškės . In 1954 he became a corresponding member of the Art Academy of the USSR. The young pianist (1958) is in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow . The monument to the Lithuanian poet Petras Cvirka (1959) is in Vilnius. For the Expo 67 he created the plaster sculpture First Swallows in 1964 , for which he received the State Prize of the Lithuanian Socialist Soviet Republic in 1966 . An enlarged bronze version was installed in the National Gallery in Vilnius in 1987.

Mikėnas was buried in the Antakalnis Cemetery in Vilnius.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Axel Frey: Biographical Index of Russia and the Soviet Union . KG Saur, Munich 2005, p. 1377 .
  2. ↑ Микенас Юозас Йокубо (accessed November 16, 2016).
  3. ↑ Willi Scharloff: Königsberg - then and now: Pictures from a forbidden city . Rautenberg, Leer 1982, ISBN 3-7921-0266-8 , pp. 71 .
  4. ↑ a b Algimantas Mačiulis: Dailė architektūroje . Dailės akademijos Leidykla, Vilnius 2003, ISBN 9986-571-86-3 , p. 272, 273 .
  5. ↑ Green bridge, green gap ... (accessed on November 16, 2016).

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SURNAME Mikėnas, Juozas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Мике́нас, Юо́зас (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian-Russian sculptor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Skārdupītes at Aknīste
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1964
Place of death Vilnius