Painter Antanas Zmuidzinavicius

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PainterAntanas Zmuidzinavicius

• By Marija Šironaite
• Gintare Pundyte
• Orinta Jurkeviciute
• Raimonda Grikienyte

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Biography

• Painter, born in Seirijai southern Lithuania, on
  October 31, 1876. Deciding to take up the study
  of art, he went to Warsaw in 1898, where he began
  his training with the noted Polish painter of
  historical subjects, Wojciech Gerson. He showed
  his first works at an exhibition of the Art Salon
  of Warsaw in 1902.

A. Zmuidzinavicius (1876 1966)
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• Shortly after his arrival in Vilnius in the
  summer of 1906, he was elected chairman of a
  committee which organized the first exhibition of
  Lithuanian artists. The exhibit was opened on
  1907 of the 213 canvases shown, 35 were his,
  including such delicately hued landscapes as The
  River Neris near Antakalnis, Hamlet in Dzukija, A
  Lithuanian After Work, and Exile. Through his
  efforts and of others, the Lithuanian Art Society
  (Lietuviu Dailes Draugija) came into being that
  same year he was elected its president.

                         
A. Zmuidzinavicius collection of Lithuanian folk
art
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• In 1908 he set out on a journey which took
  him through Western Europe and ended in the
  United States. 

He returned to Vilnius in autumn of 1909 and
resumed his activities with the Art Society.In
1912 he went to Hamburg to study fresco painting.
In 1914 he travelled in northern Norway painting
arctic landscapes and came back to Vilnius just
before the outbreak of World War I.
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• After the war, living in Kaunas, he continued to
  concern himself with the organisational life of
  art and took an active part in civic affairs
  throughout the period of independence. At a
  retrospective exhibit of Lithuanian art in 1920
  he displayed 109 canvases.
• He revisited the United States in 19221924
  exhibitions of his art were held in Washington
  (1923), and in Chicago and New York (1924). From
  19261931, he headed the revived Lithuanian Art
  Society.

One picture from exhibition in Washington
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A. Zmudzinavicius Memorial Museum in Kaunas
Throughout his long life he was an
ardent collector, amassing an extensive and
valuable collection of Lithuanian art, historic
and ethnographic items, and folk artefacts. A
portion of this collection is housed in museums
in Kaunas and Vilnius, and the rest in the museum
bearing his name, which was founded in Kaunas in
1965.
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Famous works

• Gavo laiška 1904m. (Recieving a Letter)
• Neris ties Antakalniu 1906 (Neris near
  Antakalnis)
• Per kiaura nakti 1906m. (All Through the
  Night)
• Nemunas prieš audra 1917m. (Nemunas before the
  storm)
• Dvi pušys 1931m. (Two Pines)
• Poilsis 1920 m. (Recreation )

All Through The Night 1904m.
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His other works

• Sielvartas (Susigraudinimas) (1906)
• Paskutiniai spinduliai (1908),
• Tado Daugirdo portretas (1910),
• Petro Rimšos portretas (1911),
• Tinklai džiusta (1926),
• Linu kulimo talka (1926)

Recreation 1920 m.
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His works from devil museum
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Antanas Zmuidzinavicius Sielvartas (1906)
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Antanas Zmuidzinavicius 1912
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The Post Stamp1 Lt Antanas Zmuidzinavicius (1876
-1966)
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The End