Jurgis Baltrušaitis

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Jurgis Baltrušaitis (born May 7, 1903 in Moscow , † January 25, 1988 in Paris ) was a Lithuanian art historian .

Life

Jurgis Baltrušaitis is the son of the symbolist poet Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873–1944). In his youth he used to associate with Boris Pasternak . In 1924 he studied art history with Henri Focillon at the Sorbonne .

In 1927 he went on a study trip with the aim of seeing Romanesque art; his path took him to Armenia, Georgia, Spain, Italy and Germany. He completed his studies with a doctorate in 1931 and then worked as a cultural attaché at the Lithuanian embassy in Paris. Study trips to Iran and Iraq followed in 1933 . In 1934 he organized an exhibition on Baltic folk art in Paris.

From 1933 to 1939 he taught art history at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas , Lithuania. 1947–1948 he taught at the University of New York, later with guest stays at Yale (1952) and at the Metropolitan Museum .

His wife Hélène was the daughter of Henri Focillon .

Fonts (selection)

  • Etudes sur l'art médiéval en Géorgie et en Arménie. Paris: E. Leroux, 1929.
  • La Stylistique ornementale in the sculpture romane. Paris: E. Leroux-Collège de France, 1931.
    • English translation: Wylie Sypher (Ed.): Art History: an Anthology of Modern Criticism. Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1975, pp. 116-131.
  • L'église cloisonnée en Orient et en Occident. Paris, Éd. d'Art et d'Histoire, 1941.
  • Lithuanian folk art. (Lithuania, country and nation, 3), Munich, Vizgirda, 1948.
  • Le Moyen Age fantastique: antiquités et exotismes dans l'art gothique. Paris, Flammarion, 1955.
    • German translation: The fantastic Middle Ages. Ancient and exotic elements in Gothic art. Berlin 1985. New edition: Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1994.
  • Les perspectives depravées - anamorphoses ou thaumaturgus. Paris: Perrin, 1955.
    • New edition: Flammarion 1984; English translation: 1989; Italian translation: Milano: Adelohi 1990.
  • Aberrations: Quatre Essais sur La Legende des Formes. Paris: Perrin, 1957.
  • Réveils et prodiges: Le gothique fantastique. Paris: Colin, 1960.
  • Le miroir: Essai sur une légende scientifique: révélations, science-fiction et fallacies. Paris: Seuil, 1978.
    • German edition: Der Spiegel - discoveries, deceptions, fantasies. Giessen: Anabas-Verlag 1996.
  • La quête d'Isis: essai sur la legend d'un mythe. Paris: Flammarion, 1985.
  • Imaginary realities: fiction and illusion as productive forces; Animal physiognomics, images in stone, forest architecture, illusion gardens. Translated from the French. by Henning Ritter , Cologne: DuMont, 1984.
  • Formations, déformations: La stylistique ornementale dans la sculpture romane (Idées et recherches). Paris: Flammarion, 1986.
  • Saracen curiosities in the Gothic Middle Ages. In: Cat. Europe and the Orient. Berlin 1989, pp. 28-37.

Literature (selection)

  • Annamaria Ducci: Le geste plastique et le geste émotionnel di Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1925): la genesi del testo. 2000 In: Polittico , 1.2000, pp. 141–152.
  • Claudia Blümle: NATURA PICTRIX. To the rediscovery of the stone sculptures by Jurgis Baltrušaitis and Roger Caillois . In: Nadia Schneider (Ed.): Markus Müller - Benefit and Disadvantage: [on the occasion of the exhibition Agatenplatten by Markus Müller in the Kunsthaus Glarus, February 5 to May 7, 2006], Zurich 2006, pp. 25–32. [1]
  • Annamaria Ducci: Le metamorfosi del gotico (nel 1960), I quaderni di PsicoArt - N. 1 2010. Text
  • Odeta Žukauskienė: Jurgis Baltrušaitis: cross-cultural biography and cross-cultural art history. In: 2., 2012, pp. 27–34.
  • Odeta Žukauskienė: Orderly ugliness, anamorphosis and visionary worlds: Jurgis Baltrušaitis' contribution to art history. In: Ugliness. 2013, pp. 190–215.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christopher Barnes (Ed.): Boris Pasternak: a literary biography . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England] 1989, pp. 175 .
  2. ↑ Sorensen, Lee: Baltrušaitis, Jurgis, II . In: Dictionary of Art Historians . February 21, 2018 ( arthistorians.info [accessed October 30, 2018]).
  3. ^ Vallery-Radot, Jean: Jurgis Baltrusaitis. Le Moyen Âge fantastique . In: Revue d'histoire de l'Église de France . tape 42 , no. 138 , 1956 ( persee.fr [accessed October 30, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Michael and Thomas Rainer: Le Moyen Age fantastique.Antiquités et Exotismes dans l'art gothique. (PDF) Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Ugne Karvelis: Jurgis Baltrusaitis (1903–1988), historien de l'art. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Baltrušaitis, Jurgis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1988
Place of death Paris