The courtyard of Adam Mickiewicz’s house on Bernardinų Street

A. Międzybłocki produced many bright and cheerful watercolours in which he pictured the landscapes of cities (Vilnius, Warsaw, Cracow, and Gdańsk). In this watercolour he immortalised the sunlit courtyard in an old city with the characteristic wooden balconies decorated by blooming flowers. Such closed courtyards, like shelters from the noise and din of the street, were the place of everyday life for urban families. That was their private space, a sort of their closed habitual micro-universe. The painter succeeded in reproducing the cosiness and peaceful atmosphere of such courtyards.

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES I (2010). Text authors Nijolė Tumėnienė, Dalia Tarandaitė, VILNIUS. TOPOPHILIA I (2014). Compiler and author Laima Laučkaitė
Expositions: “Académie de Vilna. Vilnius Drawing School (1866–1915)”, 5 October – 26 November 2017, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (curator Jolanta Širkaitė). Published: Académie de Vilna: Vilniaus piešimo mokykla 1866-1915 / Vilnius drawing school: Exhibition Catalogue, Nacionalinė dailės galerija 2017 m. 4 d. - lapkričio 26 d., compiled by Jolanta Širkaitė, Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2017, p. 281. ‘Vilnius Forever. A Dialogue of Artworks and Guides to the City’, 25 May 2022 – 30 April 2023 Lithuanian Art Centre TARTLE (Užupio St. 40, Vilnius). Curator Laima Laučkaitė.

A. Międzybłocki produced many bright and cheerful watercolours in which he pictured the landscapes of cities (Vilnius, Warsaw, Cracow, and Gdańsk). In this watercolour he immortalised the sunlit courtyard in an old city with the characteristic wooden balconies decorated by blooming flowers. Such closed courtyards, like shelters from the noise and din of the street, were the place of everyday life for urban families. That was their private space, a sort of their closed habitual micro-universe. The painter succeeded in reproducing the cosiness and peaceful atmosphere of such courtyards.

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES I (2010). Text authors Nijolė Tumėnienė, Dalia Tarandaitė, VILNIUS. TOPOPHILIA I (2014). Compiler and author Laima Laučkaitė
Expositions: “Académie de Vilna. Vilnius Drawing School (1866–1915)”, 5 October – 26 November 2017, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (curator Jolanta Širkaitė). Published: Académie de Vilna: Vilniaus piešimo mokykla 1866-1915 / Vilnius drawing school: Exhibition Catalogue, Nacionalinė dailės galerija 2017 m. 4 d. - lapkričio 26 d., compiled by Jolanta Širkaitė, Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2017, p. 281. ‘Vilnius Forever. A Dialogue of Artworks and Guides to the City’, 25 May 2022 – 30 April 2023 Lithuanian Art Centre TARTLE (Užupio St. 40, Vilnius). Curator Laima Laučkaitė.