Landscape of an Italian village (Pescara, d’Anunzio’s native land)
| Author: | Rimtas Kalpokas (1908–1980) |
Rimtas Kalpokas was a painter, monumentalist and graphic artist. He was born on 18 April 1908 in Munich. In 1920 he and his father returned to Lithuania. In 1929 he finished the Kaunas School of Art and in 1935 graduated from the Institute of Industrial Art of Monza (Instituto superiore delle Industrie Artistiche), Italy, in the division of wall painting and posters. He began to participate in exhibitions in 1929. He was a lecturer at the Kaunas School of Art (1935–1940), the Kaunas Institute of Applied Art (1940–1943), the Kaunas Institute of Applied and Fine Arts (1944–1951), the Kaunas Stepas Žukas High School of Applied Art (1951–1963) and a lecturer and professor (1977) at the Kaunas division of the Lithuanian State Institute of Art (1964–1979). In 1937, in the World Art and Engineering Exhibition in Paris, he was awarded a bronze medal for his wall painting Piemenėlis (Little Shepherd).
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.
Rimtas Kalpokas was a painter, monumentalist and graphic artist. He was born on 18 April 1908 in Munich. In 1920 he and his father returned to Lithuania. In 1929 he finished the Kaunas School of Art and in 1935 graduated from the Institute of Industrial Art of Monza (Instituto superiore delle Industrie Artistiche), Italy, in the division of wall painting and posters. He began to participate in exhibitions in 1929. He was a lecturer at the Kaunas School of Art (1935–1940), the Kaunas Institute of Applied Art (1940–1943), the Kaunas Institute of Applied and Fine Arts (1944–1951), the Kaunas Stepas Žukas High School of Applied Art (1951–1963) and a lecturer and professor (1977) at the Kaunas division of the Lithuanian State Institute of Art (1964–1979). In 1937, in the World Art and Engineering Exhibition in Paris, he was awarded a bronze medal for his wall painting Piemenėlis (Little Shepherd).
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.
