Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis
Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis (born March 10, 1893 in Linkavičiai , Wolost Pakruojis ; † May 21, 1993 in Vilnius ) was a Lithuanian architect .
Life
In 1899 he attended the Ugonicewa elementary school and from 1900 to 1904 the Medvednikow high school in Moscow . In 1904 he came to Lithuania from Russia . From 1913 he learned in Riga , from 1922 he studied at the Lithuanian University in Kaunas . In 1926 he completed his architecture studies at the Regia Scuola Superiore di Architettura in Rome . In 1926 he worked at the Ministry of Transport of Lithuania and from 1927 to 1929 he taught at the Lithuanian University. From 1939 to 1943 he was chief engineer and architect of Vilnius .
Landsbergis-Žemkalnis became a member of the Lithuanian Activist Front and in 1941 Minister of Local Economy of the German occupation administration. In 1944 he fled to Germany and in 1949 he emigrated to Australia . From 1942 to 1944 he taught at Vilnius University and in 1944 as a teacher at the Lithuanian high school in Eichstätt , from 1946 to 1949 he worked and taught at UNRRA ( United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ). In 1959 he came back to Lithuania. From 1961 he worked as an architect in Kaunas at the monument institute and at the city building institute as chief architect.
In 1973 he became a distinguished architect of Soviet Lithuania .
family
His father was Gabrielius Landsbergis-Žemkalnis (1852-1916), playwright, publicist and dramaturge. His mother was Česlava Lukaševičiūtė (1860-1907).
His first wife was Ona Jablonskytė-Landsbergienė (1894–1957), an ophthalmologist, daughter of the Lituanist Jonas Jablonskis .
His son is Vytautas Landsbergis (* 1932), musicologist and politician. His second son is Gabrielius Žemkalnis-Landsbergis (* 1929), a journalist in Australia.
Projects
- 1928: Church of the Eucharistic Savior in Kybartai
- 1930: Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas Eye Clinic (Kaunas)
- Kauno muzikinis teatras
- 1930–1936: Panevėžys grammar school
- 1931–1932 Vytautas-Žemkalnis-Gymnasium Panevėžys
- 1934 Mažeikiai Church of Jesus
- 1934: Pienocentras Palace in Kaunas (now Faculty of Economics and Business of the Technical University of Kaunas )
- Panevėžys Hospital
- 1935–1940: Šiauliai Hospital
- 1935–1940: Švėkšna Hospital
- 1936: Church of Šakiai
Awards
By decision of the Panevėžys City Council in 1993, the Vytautas Žemkalnis Grammar School Panevėžys was named after him.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Landsbergis-Žemkalnis, Vytautas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Linkavičiai , Wolost Pakruojis |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 1993 |
| Place of death | Vilnius |