Landscape with a church
| Author: | Michał Rouba (1893–1941) |
A painter, graphic artist and teacher Michał Rouba was born in 1893 in Vilnius. In 1912–1914 he studied at the Cracow Academy of Art under J. Malczewski. Between 1919 and 1921 he attended lectures at Vilnius University’s faculty of Art on audit. In 1924 he refined his skills in Paris, and in 1930 he visited Italy. He was a member of the Vilnius Plastic Artists’ Society and one of its founders. He taught drawing at the Society’s Drawing School, which later became the School of Fine Arts and Crafts. From 1931 he was the head of that School. He participated in the exhibitions in Vilnius, Warsaw, Poznan, Amsterdam, Vienna, Budapest, Hague, Brussels, and Paris. He displayed his works in his personal exhibitions in Warsaw (1935) and Vilnius (1935 and 1938). He painted romantic landscapes, cityscapes (mostly of Vilnius), produced several wall paintings and woodcuts. He died in 1941 in Vilnius.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES I (2010). Compilers Nijolė Tumėnienė, Dalia Tarandaitė, Jurgita Semenauskienė. Text author Dalia Tarandaitė.
A painter, graphic artist and teacher Michał Rouba was born in 1893 in Vilnius. In 1912–1914 he studied at the Cracow Academy of Art under J. Malczewski. Between 1919 and 1921 he attended lectures at Vilnius University’s faculty of Art on audit. In 1924 he refined his skills in Paris, and in 1930 he visited Italy. He was a member of the Vilnius Plastic Artists’ Society and one of its founders. He taught drawing at the Society’s Drawing School, which later became the School of Fine Arts and Crafts. From 1931 he was the head of that School. He participated in the exhibitions in Vilnius, Warsaw, Poznan, Amsterdam, Vienna, Budapest, Hague, Brussels, and Paris. He displayed his works in his personal exhibitions in Warsaw (1935) and Vilnius (1935 and 1938). He painted romantic landscapes, cityscapes (mostly of Vilnius), produced several wall paintings and woodcuts. He died in 1941 in Vilnius.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES I (2010). Compilers Nijolė Tumėnienė, Dalia Tarandaitė, Jurgita Semenauskienė. Text author Dalia Tarandaitė.
