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AMZINAI GYVI (Alive for Ever)
KRASAUSKAS, Stasys with Essay by Eduardas Miezelaitis
Published by Vaga, Vilnius, 1977. HARDCOVER. Extra Large Quarto size (4to). In green boards, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, approx 24pp text in English, Lithuanian, Russian and German plus 32 full page single sided plates, showing Krasauskas\' woodcut cycle done to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the end of the 2nd world war
Stasys Krasauskas (1929–1977), was among the most popular Lithuanian graphic artists of the Soviet era, both within the USSR and beyond its borders, was born and raised in Kaunas. He first began drawing in 1948 after beginning his studies at the Kaunas Institute for Physical Education. From 1952 to 1958, Krasauskas studied graphic art at the Lithuanian State Art Institute in Vilnius. He was not only a talented artist, but also an excellent swimmer and a member of the official Soviet Lithuanian water polo team. Krasauskas began teaching drawing at the State Art Institute in 1961.
Krasauskas’ most significant contribution to the school of Lithuanian graphic arts was his folksy, crude, and simplified woodcuts for and his striking etchings. Inspired by expressionist and realist graphic art, especially the works of Jurkūnas, Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas and Käthe Kollwitz, Krasauskas put his own unique imprint on the development of pacifist iconography depicting the horrors, suffering and death of war, a movement that first took shape in Western European art following the First World War, and that regained popularity during the Cold War. Pain, desperate passion, and the loneliness of a broken man are expressed in his animated and energetic figure compositions. This is his most extensive series of etchings—Amžinai gyvi (Forever Alive).
Loc: B4
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AMZINAI GYVI (Alive for Ever)
KRASAUSKAS, Stasys with Essay by Eduardas Miezelaitis
Published by Vaga, Vilnius, 1977. HARDCOVER. Extra Large Quarto size (4to). In green boards, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, approx 24pp text in English, Lithuanian, Russian and German plus 32 full page single sided plates, showing Krasauskas\' woodcut cycle done to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the end of the 2nd world war
Stasys Krasauskas (1929–1977), was among the most popular Lithuanian graphic artists of the Soviet era, both within the USSR and beyond its borders, was born and raised in Kaunas. He first began drawing in 1948 after beginning his studies at the Kaunas Institute for Physical Education. From 1952 to 1958, Krasauskas studied graphic art at the Lithuanian State Art Institute in Vilnius. He was not only a talented artist, but also an excellent swimmer and a member of the official Soviet Lithuanian water polo team. Krasauskas began teaching drawing at the State Art Institute in 1961.
Krasauskas’ most significant contribution to the school of Lithuanian graphic arts was his folksy, crude, and simplified woodcuts for and his striking etchings. Inspired by expressionist and realist graphic art, especially the works of Jurkūnas, Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas and Käthe Kollwitz, Krasauskas put his own unique imprint on the development of pacifist iconography depicting the horrors, suffering and death of war, a movement that first took shape in Western European art following the First World War, and that regained popularity during the Cold War. Pain, desperate passion, and the loneliness of a broken man are expressed in his animated and energetic figure compositions. This is his most extensive series of etchings—Amžinai gyvi (Forever Alive).
Loc: B4
