Litauischer Maler - Mikalojus Konstantinas ?Iurlionis, Jehuda Pen, Vytautas Kairi?k Tis, Tadas Daugirdas, Stasys Eidrigevi?ius (English, German, Paperback)

Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Mikalojus Konstantinas ?iurlionis, also known as M. K. ?iurlionis (22 September 1875 -10 April 1911) was a Lithuanian painter and composer. ?iurlionis contributed to symbolism and art nouveau and was representative of the fin de siecle epoch. During his short life he composed about 250 pieces of music and created about 300 paintings. The majority of his paintings are housed in the M. K. ?iurlionis National Art Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania. His works have had a profound influence on modern Lithuanian culture. The asteroid 2420 ?iurlionis is named after him. Mikalojus Konstantinas ?iurlionis was born in Senoji Var?na, the oldest of nine children of his father, Constantine, and his mother, Adele. In those years many educated Lithuanians spoke Polish instead of Lithuanian. The family ?iurlionis grew up in was no exception. He nevertheless considered himself Lithuanian rather than Polish. In 1878 his family moved to Druskininkai, where his father became the town organist. ?iurlionis was a musical prodigy: he could play by ear at age three and could sight-read music freely by age seven. Three years out of primary school, he went to study at the musical school of Prince Micha? Oginski where he learned to play several orchestral instruments, in particular the flute, from 1889 to 1893. ?iurlionis studied piano and composition at the Warsaw Conservatory from 1894 to 1899. For his graduation, in 1899, he wrote a cantata for mixed chorus and symphonic orchestra titled De Profundis, with the guidance of the composer Zygmunt Noskowski. Later he attended composition lectures at the Leipzig Conservatory (1901 to 1902), and studied drawing at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts from 1904 to 1906. He was one of the initiators of, and a participant in, the First Exhibition of Lithuanian Art that took place in 1907 in Vilei is Palace, Vilnius. Soon after this event the Lithuanian Union of Arts was founded, and ...http: //booksllc.net/?l=d