Lithuanian women
| Authors: |
Albert Kretschmer (1825–1891) Gustav Leutzsch (XIX c.) |
| Created: | 1889 |
| Material: | paper |
| Technique: | chromolithograph |
| Dimensions: | 25.60 × 19.50 cm |
| Signature: | bottom right: A. K. / 1889., inscriptions, below the lithograph: Chromolith. Inst. v. Gustav Leutzsch, Gera (Reuss) (bottom left), 12 / Littauen (centre), and J. G. Bach’s Verlag (Fr. Eugen Köhler) Leipzig (bottom right) |
The coloured lithograph by Gustav Leutzsch reproduces a watercolour by Albert Kretschmer (1825–1891), a German artist and an expert in historic costume, portraying Prussian Lithuanian women in festive clothes. Unlike Eduard Gisevius (1798–1880), Kretschmer did not take a special interest in the lives of the peasants of Lithuania Minor, although he included several illustrations of Lithuanians in Prussian lands and their traditional clothing in the second edition of his book Deutsche Volkstrachten, which was published in Leipzig in 1890. Four pages of the book are devoted to a description of Lithuanian traditional costume.
Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album MORE THAN JUST BEAUTY (2012). Compiler and author Giedrė JankevičiūtėExpositions: “More Than Just Beauty: The Image of Woman in the LAWIN collection”, 12 October – 11 November 2012, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (curator Giedrė Jankevičiūtė); "Lithuanian Traditional and Folk Costumes: Textiles, Graphic Art, Painting", 11 May – 5 November 2017, Museum of the Radvilas Palace, Vilnius (curator Dalia Bernotaitė-Beliauskienė, Rima Rutkauskienė)
