Napoleonas Petrulis

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Napoleonas Petrulis ( Russian Наполеонас Пятрулис ; born August 14 . Jul / 27. August  1909 greg. In Eikiniškis in rokiškis district municipality ; † 24. March 1985 in Vilnius ) was a Lithuanian - Russian sculptor and university lecturer .

Life

Petrulis studied at the Kaunas Art School with graduation in 1931. From 1935 he participated in exhibitions and worked as a teacher in Kaunas, Jurbarkas and Rokiškis .

In 1944 Petrulis became a lecturer at the Vilnius Art Institute, which in 1951 became the Vilnius State Art Institute of the Lithuanian SSR . In 1951 he became a member of the CPSU . In 1958 he was appointed professor.

Petrulis created watercolors , drawings , caricature sculptures by Konstantinas Bogdanas and other artist colleagues and many portrait sculptures : the poet Salomėja Nėris (1948), the poet Petras Cvirka (1957), the communist leader Pranas Eidukevičius (1959), the reading Lenin (1961), the Politician Mečislovas Gedvilas (1964), the sculptor Juozas Mikėnas (1965), the literary critic and politician Antanas Venclova (1967), The Daughters (1984) and others.

Construction and industry on the Green Bridge in Vilnius

For the rebuilt Green Bridge in Vilnius from the old town to Šnipiškės , Petrulis and Bronius Vyšniauskas created the Construction Industry 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 was removed from the bridge by Juozas Mikėnas as symbols of Soviet rule in the style of Socialist Realism . The small plastic A Moment of Rest was created in 1957 and mother with child in 1965. He designed the sculpture group Lenin and the Red Army soldier J. Bartaschjunas in 1965. His Lenin monuments were erected in Kaunas in 1970 and Druskininkai in 1981. He created the four communists ( Rapolas Čarnas , Kazys Giedrys , Juozas Greifenbergeris , Karolis Požėla ) together with Bronius Vyšniauskas in 1973 for Kaunas and are now in the Grūtas Park there . He created grave monuments for Antanas Sniečkus (1975) and many others.

Honors

  • Honored Artist (1959)
  • People's Artist of the Lithuanian SSR (1965)
  • State Prize of the Lithuanian SSR (1971)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ J. Skolevičienė, L. Jasiulis: Napoleonas Petrulis . Vilnius 1975.
  2. ^ Napoleonas Petrulis (1909 08 14–1985 03 24) (Lithuanian, accessed December 13, 2016).
  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 Petrulis, Napoleonas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Пятрулис, Наполеонас (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian-Russian sculptor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Eikiniškis, Rokiškis district parish
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1985
Place of death Vilnius