Landscape
| Author: | Petras Kalpokas (1880–1945) |
Petras Kalpokas was a painter, teacher and active member of the community. He was born on 31 March 1880 on a homestead in Miškinė, Biržai district. In 1895–1898 he attended private studios in Mintauja, Latvia (under the supervision of V. Purvitis and J. Valters), and went to B. Blum’s School of Art in Riga. In 1898–1900 he attended drawing school in Odessa. In 1904–1909 he studied in Munich (attended the studios of A. Azbé, B. Brockhoff and others). In 1904 he began to participate in exhibitions and in 1907 joined the Vienna Artists’ Association Secession. He was a founder and active member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association and participant of all the primary exhibitions of Lithuanian art (1906–1914). Until the First World War he lived in Switzerland, Hungary and Latvia. He spent the wartime in Switzerland and Italy, on the Sestri Levante peninsula near Genoa, and after the war he moved to Rome. He returned to Lithuania in 1920. In 1921–1945 he taught drawing, wall-painting and mosaic, supervised the art studio (from 1929) at the Kaunas School of Art and later at the Kaunas Institute of Applied and Fine Arts. He produced landscapes, still-life pictures, figure compositions, portraits, stage settings and monumental art works in the Bank of Lithuania, in Karininkų Ramovė (Officers’ Club of the Armed Forces) and in the Kaunas Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts. On 5 December 1945 he unexpectedly died in Kaunas.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES I (2010). Compilers Nijolė Tumėnienė, Dalia Tarandaitė, Jurgita Semenauskienė. Text author Nijolė Tumėnienė.
Petras Kalpokas was a painter, teacher and active member of the community. He was born on 31 March 1880 on a homestead in Miškinė, Biržai district. In 1895–1898 he attended private studios in Mintauja, Latvia (under the supervision of V. Purvitis and J. Valters), and went to B. Blum’s School of Art in Riga. In 1898–1900 he attended drawing school in Odessa. In 1904–1909 he studied in Munich (attended the studios of A. Azbé, B. Brockhoff and others). In 1904 he began to participate in exhibitions and in 1907 joined the Vienna Artists’ Association Secession. He was a founder and active member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association and participant of all the primary exhibitions of Lithuanian art (1906–1914). Until the First World War he lived in Switzerland, Hungary and Latvia. He spent the wartime in Switzerland and Italy, on the Sestri Levante peninsula near Genoa, and after the war he moved to Rome. He returned to Lithuania in 1920. In 1921–1945 he taught drawing, wall-painting and mosaic, supervised the art studio (from 1929) at the Kaunas School of Art and later at the Kaunas Institute of Applied and Fine Arts. He produced landscapes, still-life pictures, figure compositions, portraits, stage settings and monumental art works in the Bank of Lithuania, in Karininkų Ramovė (Officers’ Club of the Armed Forces) and in the Kaunas Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts. On 5 December 1945 he unexpectedly died in Kaunas.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES I (2010). Compilers Nijolė Tumėnienė, Dalia Tarandaitė, Jurgita Semenauskienė. Text author Nijolė Tumėnienė.
