Plaster cast of an antique bust

Stanisław Filibert Fleury (1858–1915) was best known as a photographer. But like many of his 19th-century peers, he had a good grounding in art. His family’s financial difficulties forced him to give up his place at a boys’ gymnasium in Vilnius in 1873. The next year, he began to attend classes at the Vilnius School of Drawing, which encouraged gifted youngsters and educated craftsmen, and which was better known by the name of its principal, the Russian painter Ivan Trutnev. Fleury’s talent for painting and sculpture was recognised, and works of his were entered into competitions in St Petersburg organised by the Imperial Academy of Arts. He was awarded a medal for his drawings in 1878, and in an unspecified year he won a silver medal for his wooden sculptures An old man and An old woman.

Text author Giedrė Jankevičiūtė

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album MORE THAN JUST BEAUTY (2012). Compiler and author Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, RES PUBLICA (2018). Compiler and author Rūta Janonienė
Expositions: “More Than Just Beauty: The Image of Woman in the LAWIN collection”, 12 October – 11 November 2012, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius

Stanisław Filibert Fleury (1858–1915) was best known as a photographer. But like many of his 19th-century peers, he had a good grounding in art. His family’s financial difficulties forced him to give up his place at a boys’ gymnasium in Vilnius in 1873. The next year, he began to attend classes at the Vilnius School of Drawing, which encouraged gifted youngsters and educated craftsmen, and which was better known by the name of its principal, the Russian painter Ivan Trutnev. Fleury’s talent for painting and sculpture was recognised, and works of his were entered into competitions in St Petersburg organised by the Imperial Academy of Arts. He was awarded a medal for his drawings in 1878, and in an unspecified year he won a silver medal for his wooden sculptures An old man and An old woman.

Text author Giedrė Jankevičiūtė

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album MORE THAN JUST BEAUTY (2012). Compiler and author Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, RES PUBLICA (2018). Compiler and author Rūta Janonienė
Expositions: “More Than Just Beauty: The Image of Woman in the LAWIN collection”, 12 October – 11 November 2012, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius