The port of Marseille
| Author: | Juzefa Katiliūtė (1916–2009) |
A painter and graphic artist, Juzefa Katiliūtė painted in acrylic and in ink, and made colour silk-screen prints. She was born on 9 December 1916 in the rural district of Marijampolė. In 1940 she finished studying at Kaunas School of Art, and in 1942 she finished at Vilnius Academy of Art (she was a student of Justinas Vienožinskis). She fled to Switzerland in 1945, and in 1948 she completed her studies at the Geneva School of Art. She began to participate in exhibitions in 1952, and was accepted as a member of the Swiss Association of Women Artists in 1959. She has held solo exhibitions in the USA (Farmington, 1966; Hartford, 1967), Switzerland (Geneva, 1982), and Lithuania (Vilnius, 1994, 2003, 2004). In 1987, a Swiss art critic wrote about her in the daily Der Bund: ‘I was very excited by the work of the Lithuanian artist J. Katiliūtė. Her mystical landscapes, which have come from the world of reality and dreams, are fused into rhythmic vibrations of natural shapes and intuitive sounds … One is charmed by the wonderful pictures, where the soul is ringing with northern melodies, and its magic can change the rhythm of the rules of nature, where rocks flow like rivers, and water turns into rock …’ At first, the colouring consisted of heavy, dark and depressed combinations, but later it grew lighter and took a turn towards the clear accord of pure colours. The works held by Swiss museums, are realistic, colourful, warm, and expressively painted in a Post-Impressionist style, with frequent figure compositions. Her later works are lyrical abstract landscapes, close to Abstract Expressionism. Some of her works are held by the Lithuanian Art Museum. She died on 17 November 2009 in Geneva.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES II (2013). Compiler and author Nijolė Tumėnienė.
A painter and graphic artist, Juzefa Katiliūtė painted in acrylic and in ink, and made colour silk-screen prints. She was born on 9 December 1916 in the rural district of Marijampolė. In 1940 she finished studying at Kaunas School of Art, and in 1942 she finished at Vilnius Academy of Art (she was a student of Justinas Vienožinskis). She fled to Switzerland in 1945, and in 1948 she completed her studies at the Geneva School of Art. She began to participate in exhibitions in 1952, and was accepted as a member of the Swiss Association of Women Artists in 1959. She has held solo exhibitions in the USA (Farmington, 1966; Hartford, 1967), Switzerland (Geneva, 1982), and Lithuania (Vilnius, 1994, 2003, 2004). In 1987, a Swiss art critic wrote about her in the daily Der Bund: ‘I was very excited by the work of the Lithuanian artist J. Katiliūtė. Her mystical landscapes, which have come from the world of reality and dreams, are fused into rhythmic vibrations of natural shapes and intuitive sounds … One is charmed by the wonderful pictures, where the soul is ringing with northern melodies, and its magic can change the rhythm of the rules of nature, where rocks flow like rivers, and water turns into rock …’ At first, the colouring consisted of heavy, dark and depressed combinations, but later it grew lighter and took a turn towards the clear accord of pure colours. The works held by Swiss museums, are realistic, colourful, warm, and expressively painted in a Post-Impressionist style, with frequent figure compositions. Her later works are lyrical abstract landscapes, close to Abstract Expressionism. Some of her works are held by the Lithuanian Art Museum. She died on 17 November 2009 in Geneva.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES II (2013). Compiler and author Nijolė Tumėnienė.
