ART 21
Publishing House VAGA,
Vilnius,1979
ČESLOVAS ZNAMIEROVSKIS
(1890. V. 23 - 1977. VIII. 9)
Publishing House VAGA,
Vilnius,1979
ČESLOVAS ZNAMIEROVSKIS
(1890. V. 23 - 1977. VIII. 9)
For about fifty years Č. Znamierovskis has been related to Vilnius and its life of art. He came here from Latvia as a grown up artist having the firm basics of the realistic academic school. The reason why he entered Vilnius University Faculty of Art was not that he lacked knowledge or skill, but he simply wanted to work under the direction of Prof. F. Ruščicas and Prof. A. Šturmanas. Once when F. Ruščicas, a landscape painter of a more romantic mood, was expressing his opinion about one of Č. Znamierovskis landscapes, he said: “Everything is done perfectly, no faults can be found. Only there is no cock’s crow in your spring…”
Through all his life Č. Znamierovskis remained true to his realistic and maybe slightly ascetic style of painting and the genre of landscape. After the war he painted portraits, too. He was considered as a great master of this job and received serious orders. However, the most important inspirer of his creation was nature. As most of the artists he particularly liked “the landscape season”, i.e. the early spring and the golden autumn. He was a painter of rare diligence and, by the way, he easily coped with his job. When he went to paint from nature, he brought back not one but three or four sketches which later in his studio he used to develop, improve and carefully represent every detail.
As in art Č. Znamierovskis was restrained and constant and did not long to the avant-garde, the same he was in life - rather secluded and not inclined to bohemian or other public gatherings and spent the time left from creation in his family or toiling in his fine flower-garden. He felt the need to communicate with nature not only with a palette in his hands. Therefore the artist lived and created in seclusion and noticed almost by nobody. Despite of this his works remain as a model of sincerity and consistency.
PETRAS SERGIJEVIČIUS
Through all his life Č. Znamierovskis remained true to his realistic and maybe slightly ascetic style of painting and the genre of landscape. After the war he painted portraits, too. He was considered as a great master of this job and received serious orders. However, the most important inspirer of his creation was nature. As most of the artists he particularly liked “the landscape season”, i.e. the early spring and the golden autumn. He was a painter of rare diligence and, by the way, he easily coped with his job. When he went to paint from nature, he brought back not one but three or four sketches which later in his studio he used to develop, improve and carefully represent every detail.
As in art Č. Znamierovskis was restrained and constant and did not long to the avant-garde, the same he was in life - rather secluded and not inclined to bohemian or other public gatherings and spent the time left from creation in his family or toiling in his fine flower-garden. He felt the need to communicate with nature not only with a palette in his hands. Therefore the artist lived and created in seclusion and noticed almost by nobody. Despite of this his works remain as a model of sincerity and consistency.
PETRAS SERGIJEVIČIUS
Translation: Vilnius Translation Bureau "DANUSTA" (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Translated from: Lithuanian
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Translated from: Lithuanian
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Source: Mazvydo National Library (Vilnius, Lithuania) // Mazvydo Nacionaline Biblioteka
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