The Vilnia in Užupis
| Author: | Lew Dobrzyński (1907–1937) |
Lew Dobrzyński (1907–1937), a graphic artist and painter, came from a family of landowners. His family owned the Aluoša estate near Ašmena. The artist’s father Viktor died young, and his mother Maria Yurashova, an opera singer and a relative of Leo Tolstoy, left St Petersburg with her children after the First World War and came to live in Vilnius. Dobrzyński studied in the Art Department at Stephen Báthory University, and became famous as a talented graphic artist while he was still a student. He enjoyed living and working on the family estate in Aluoša, where in 1937 a tragedy occurred. The 30-year-old Dobrzyński had won a grant from the Polish government to study in Paris, and came to Aluoša to get some money for the journey, but he shot himself (or was shot) there. His artistic legacy is fragmentary, consisting mostly of engravings on Vilnius themes, etchings, aquatints, copper engravings or woodcuts, which are distinguished by their expressiveness.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: VILNIUS. TOPOPHILIA I (2014). Compiler and author Laima Laučkaitė.
Lew Dobrzyński (1907–1937), a graphic artist and painter, came from a family of landowners. His family owned the Aluoša estate near Ašmena. The artist’s father Viktor died young, and his mother Maria Yurashova, an opera singer and a relative of Leo Tolstoy, left St Petersburg with her children after the First World War and came to live in Vilnius. Dobrzyński studied in the Art Department at Stephen Báthory University, and became famous as a talented graphic artist while he was still a student. He enjoyed living and working on the family estate in Aluoša, where in 1937 a tragedy occurred. The 30-year-old Dobrzyński had won a grant from the Polish government to study in Paris, and came to Aluoša to get some money for the journey, but he shot himself (or was shot) there. His artistic legacy is fragmentary, consisting mostly of engravings on Vilnius themes, etchings, aquatints, copper engravings or woodcuts, which are distinguished by their expressiveness.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: VILNIUS. TOPOPHILIA I (2014). Compiler and author Laima Laučkaitė.
