Portrait of a woman

The artist Konstanty Górski (1868–1934) was born on the Kazimieravas estate near Vandžiogala, and studied art at Ivan Trutnev’s School of Drawing in Vilnius. His studies later took him to Moscow, St Petersburg, Munich, Paris and Rome. He established a reputation as an outstanding painter of portraits, history and genre pictures, as well as being a talented book illustrator. On returning from his travels in Europe, Górski lived with his brothers on the Kazimieravas estate for a short while. He moved to Warsaw in 1894, but also took part in artistic life in Vilnius. He created a collection of family portraits at Kazimieravas.

Text author Rūta Janonienė

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 (curator Giedrė Jankevičiūtė); “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. 181.

The artist Konstanty Górski (1868–1934) was born on the Kazimieravas estate near Vandžiogala, and studied art at Ivan Trutnev’s School of Drawing in Vilnius. His studies later took him to Moscow, St Petersburg, Munich, Paris and Rome. He established a reputation as an outstanding painter of portraits, history and genre pictures, as well as being a talented book illustrator. On returning from his travels in Europe, Górski lived with his brothers on the Kazimieravas estate for a short while. He moved to Warsaw in 1894, but also took part in artistic life in Vilnius. He created a collection of family portraits at Kazimieravas.

Text author Rūta Janonienė

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 (curator Giedrė Jankevičiūtė); “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. 181.