“On Someone Who Loved Vilnius”
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Rima Rutkauskienė “On someone who loved Vilnius” Juozapas Kamarauskas‘ work holds an exclusive The biography of Kamarauskas presented in He never fails to mention that he attended the Vilnius place in Lithuanian art history. He is the only artist this article consists of several accounts from his Drawing School, led by Ivan Trutnev . to have left so many vedute genre works formed in life, journal fragments, documents, reports, per - Arriving in Vilnius to pursue his education, the Lithuania in the late th century, a majority of which sonal documents, letters and manuscripts kept at eighteenyear-old discovered a growing city, alive are dedicated to Vilnius. Many th –early th -century the Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius County and with the ideas of a national revival which encou - artists memorialised Vilnius, but Kamarauskas is Lithuanian Central State archives . A register of works raged him to take an interest in early Lithuania‘s the only one in Lithuanian art to have consistently the artist compiled himself has also provided a great cultural heritage. We know about his later studies furthered this genre. His engineering background deal of information. from a study report certicate issued by the Vilnius and great inclination to draw formed a unique creative Juozapas Kamarauskas was born on April , Gymnasium‘s teachers on January – , , kept style – he used realistic means to depict both non- (April according to the Julian calendar), as at the Lithuanian Art Museum‘s archive, and a gra - existent architectural monuments and complexes, and he later wrote, “at the Skauradai folwark in Troškūnai duation certicate after completing four levels at the those he still had the chance to witness. powiat, Ukmergė district, Kaunas governorate”; his Prince N. A. Bezborodka Gymnasium of the Institute There are entries on Kamarauskas in Lithuanian parents were farmers Mykolas Kamarauskas and Ieva of History and Philology in Nizhyn dated April , encyclopedias , dictionaries , and in works on early Uršulė SadauskaitėKamarauskienė. He had seven . In his journal from these times, he wrote that th -century Lithuanian art history . The eminent siblings of which ve survived, Boleslovas, Juozapas, he submitted an application to the Academy of Art Lithuanian culture promoter Jonas Basanavičius Felicija, Teolė and Anelė , the others dying in early in Saint Petersburg on September , . He left wrote about Kamarauskas in . The memories childhood. The future architect and artist‘s passion for Saint Petersburg in and attended the Central of Kamarauskas‘ contemporaries are equally for drawing is evident in a picture dated to in Baron A. Stieglitz School for Technical Drawing. Our valuable – Vilniaus aidas journalist (later – editor at the his register of works where he drew the Skauradai knowledge of his engineering studies comes from Lithuanian Art Museum) Rapolas Mackonis and senior folwark when he was ten years old. Kamarauskas‘ own accounts of his life. In one it is architect in post-war Vilnius Vladislovas Mikučianis . Kamarauskas attended the Raguva school, later written that in – he attended the Building Contemporary art researchers have also studied the he studied with Fr. Jonas Rusteikis in Troškū nai, and in and Art Studio where his teacher was engineer architect and artist‘s creative legacy . Vilnius with Adam Liaskowski and Andriuszkiewicz . M. M. Prozorov, another reveals that he completed Mažoji lietuviškoji tarybinė enciklopedija, Vilnius: Mintis,, t. , p. –; Basanavičius J., „Apie vieną Vilniaus mylėtoją“, Vilniaus aidas , , dokumento ksavimo iki vizijų“, Lietuvos pilys , , nr. , p. –. Lietuviškoji tarybinė enciklopedija, Vilnius : Mokslas, , t. , p. ; balandžio , p. –. Lithuanian Art Museum archive, F. B-, ap., b. –; Vilnius County archives, F. , Tarybų Lietuvos enciklopedija , Vilnius: Vyriausioji enciklopedijų redakcija, Mackonis R., Senoji vilniečių karta. Portretų eskizai , Vilnius: Lietuvos ap. , b. ; Lithuanian Central State archives, F. , ap. , , t. , p. ; rašytojų sąjunga, , p. –. b. ir F. R, ap. , b. Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija , Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos Mikučianis V., Norėjau dirbti Lietuvoje , Vilnius: Lietuvos dailės akademijos Lithuanian Art Museum archive, F. B, ap. , b. , l. institutas, , t. , p. leidykla, , , . Lithuanian Art Museum archive, F. B, ap. , b. , l. Slownik artystów polskich i obcych w Polsce dzialających: Malarstwo. Rzrzbi- Statulevičiūtė R., „Meniškoji dokumento prigimtis: Juozapo Kamarausko According to J. Širkaitė, Kamarauskas could have attended this school a r ze . Gracy, Wrocław, Warszawa, Kraków, Gdansk, Łodz: Wydawni ctwo kūryba“, Logos , , t. , p. –; after : Širkaitė J., „Vilniaus piešimo mokykla ir jos mokiniai“, Kultūros polskiej akademii nauk, , t. , p. –; Lietuvos dailininkų žodynas. StatulevičiūtėKaučikienė R., „Imaginaciniai architektūros atvaizdai istorijos tyrinėjimai , Vilnius: Kultūros ir meno instituto leidykla „Gervelė“, –, Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, ., t. , p. –. XIX a. II p.–XX a. I p. Lietuvos dailėje“, Meno istorija ir kritika , Kaunas: , p. –. XX a. Lietuvių dailės istorija. – , Vilnius: Vaga, t. , , p. Vytauto didžiojo universiteto leidykla, , nr. , p. –. Nizhyn is a city in northern Ukraine, in Chernihiv District, km from Kiev. –. Povilaitytė E., „Vilniaus Aukštutinės pilies rūmų ikonograja: nuo Lithuanian Art Museum archive, F. B, ap. , b. , l. architectural studies at the “Petrapil Academy” . lived in Saint Petersburg, Kamarauskas wrote letters created, mention was made of two plans of Vilnius, Mikučianis‘ memoirs state that according to the archi - to his sisters, oering material assistance and encou - images of Vilnius, images and reconstructions of tect, he was educated in Saint Petersburg where he ragement to reopen the store. Gediminas‘ Hill, images of the Vilnius surrounds and graduated from the Civil Engineering Institute Faculty When he arrived in Vilnius, the artist lived on Trakai, reconstructions of Kaunas, images of the of Architecture and received an architect‘s diploma . Skapo Street, and from at St Casimir‘s Lane , Sapiežiškiai Church (not far from Kaunas), as well From he worked as a junior construction later, in he moved to a small apartment near as images of Saint Petersburg, Narva and Podole. assistant, a technician, later a construction site the St Nicholas Orthodox Church at Didžioji Mikalojus Vorobjovas, Mieczysław Limanowski, manager, architect and city architect. His life ac - Street. Searching for work, he often appealed to Marian Morelowski, Adolfas Valeška, Euzebiusz counts show that in – he worked on the the Polish government, but he was rejected each Łopaciński and Vytautas Žemkalnis listened to his Užnemunė railroad between Hrodno and Alytus, and time. Kamarauskas‘ attempts at being employed on presentation, giving a favourable assessment of in – he worked on the Moscow–Vindava and the Polish Railroad Board were fruitless, as was his the works they saw, and taking into account the Petersburg–Vitsyebsk railroads. Kamarauskas had the attempt at nding service with the Vilnius magis - architect‘s merits, they decided to ask the People‘s opportunity to work with famous Italian engineer, trate. This lack of permanent employment forced him Commissariat for Education of the LSSR to allocate one of the builders of the Suez Canal in Egypt, Gaetan to take on various occasional commissions – pre - him a pension, or give him an appropriate post. Fontana. In – Kamarauskas participated in paring construction designs, restoring paintings in Žemkalnis also suggested releasing an album of rebuilding the Michailovskoi railway station, and in churches and provincial manors, creating money Kamarauskas‘ most valuable works and to hold – he was appointed senior construction en - and stamp designs, copying religious paintings, dra - an exhibition, which was eventually organised gineer of Saint Petersburg. Following service in the wing everyday genre pictures and postcards bearing in at the Vilnius City Executive Committee. military technical unit, in – he worked in the city heraldry, portraits of the dukes of the Grand As the war was ending in , Kamarauskas, as First Railroad Battalion, and in – he was en - Duchy of Lithuania, ex librises and posters. the engineer-conservator with the Communal gineerarchitect of the city and governorate of Saint When Lithuania reclaimed Vilnius in , Kama- Department‘s Technical Section in the Vilnius City Petersburg, and extraordinary chief of construction. rauskas managed to secure a position in the city Executive Committee, was ordered to produce He was arrested on September , and impriso - municipality‘s Department of Construction as an plans and drawings of the exteriors of historical ned until May , , when he was proven innocent engineer, architect and conservator. When the buildings. On September , he was appointed and released. He served in Saint Petersburg until the municipality was reorganised into an Executive inspector for architectural monument protection autumn of . As life became increasingly compli - Committee in , he worked as an engineer- with the Architectural Board of the LSSR . On April cated, and he grew tired of the terror following the architect in the urban sector of the Department of , , the Board of Science of the Vilnius State Art revolution, he decided to return to Vilnius. Construction and Architecture. When the Vilnius Institute allocated Kamarauskas with a pension in Kamarauskas‘ parents and sisters already lived Art Museum