Stiklių Street

The Polish painter Leszek Pindelski (1902–1939) studied painting at Cracow Academy of Art under Józef Mehofer, Ignacy Pieńkowski and Woiciech Weiss. He painted Stiklių Street in 1931, putting the asymmetrical arch with its tiled roof in the centre. He did not paint it from life, but from a postcard published by Znicz printers in Vilnius in 1925, which was based on a coloured photograph by F. Zaniewski, with an identical composition, in summer, with the same shadows, and the same open windows. His picture only lacks the people walking along the street. Pindelski was trying to give the impression of an empty town, and he made it more decorative with the resonant chord of a pink arch, red roofs, a white wall and a brown house. The repetition of the same view in various forms shows that the public between the wars liked the subject. Today, the arch in Stiklių Street is gone: it was destroyed after the Second World War.

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album VILNIUS. TOPOPHILIA I (2014). Compiler and author Laima Laučkaitė
Expositions: “Vilnius. Topophilia. Views of Vilnius from the collection of the law firm Ellex Valiunas”, 5 October – 26 November 2017, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (curator Laima Laučkaitė)

The Polish painter Leszek Pindelski (1902–1939) studied painting at Cracow Academy of Art under Józef Mehofer, Ignacy Pieńkowski and Woiciech Weiss. He painted Stiklių Street in 1931, putting the asymmetrical arch with its tiled roof in the centre. He did not paint it from life, but from a postcard published by Znicz printers in Vilnius in 1925, which was based on a coloured photograph by F. Zaniewski, with an identical composition, in summer, with the same shadows, and the same open windows. His picture only lacks the people walking along the street. Pindelski was trying to give the impression of an empty town, and he made it more decorative with the resonant chord of a pink arch, red roofs, a white wall and a brown house. The repetition of the same view in various forms shows that the public between the wars liked the subject. Today, the arch in Stiklių Street is gone: it was destroyed after the Second World War.

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album VILNIUS. TOPOPHILIA I (2014). Compiler and author Laima Laučkaitė
Expositions: “Vilnius. Topophilia. Views of Vilnius from the collection of the law firm Ellex Valiunas”, 5 October – 26 November 2017, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (curator Laima Laučkaitė)