Tymo Street in Vilnius

The Safjaniki (Tymo in Lithuanian) quarter stretched out below the Missionaries’ Church, across the river from Užupis. There are several theories for the origin of the name. According to one, a family of merchants called the Safjaniki lived here for many years. According to another, workshops here produced very thin morocco leather (tymas in Lithuanian, сафьян in Russian). This part of the town was poor, and inhabited mostly by Jews. During the First World War it fascinated Alfred Glatz (1870–1945), a painter of landscapes and figure compositions from Berlin, and a student of the popular German landscapist Eugen Bracht, an early 20th-century Neoromantic. This picture of Vilnius in the winter is distinguished by its early 20th-century style, the subtle and narrow range of colours, and the attractive tranquillity of an old quarter and a silent, snow-covered street.

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 Safjaniki (Tymo in Lithuanian) quarter stretched out below the Missionaries’ Church, across the river from Užupis. There are several theories for the origin of the name. According to one, a family of merchants called the Safjaniki lived here for many years. According to another, workshops here produced very thin morocco leather (tymas in Lithuanian, сафьян in Russian). This part of the town was poor, and inhabited mostly by Jews. During the First World War it fascinated Alfred Glatz (1870–1945), a painter of landscapes and figure compositions from Berlin, and a student of the popular German landscapist Eugen Bracht, an early 20th-century Neoromantic. This picture of Vilnius in the winter is distinguished by its early 20th-century style, the subtle and narrow range of colours, and the attractive tranquillity of an old quarter and a silent, snow-covered street.

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)