The works of this prominent symbolist, founder of the Warsaw School of Fine Arts, were donated to the museum by patron Jaunius Gumbis.
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The museum calls the collection one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of K. Stabrauskas’s works in Lithuania. It consists of pastels and oil paintings representing the mystical and symbolist direction of the artist’s work.
Until now, the museum held two works by K. Stabrauskas.
“My main emotion is immense gratitude for the collector’s philanthropy, which is very rare but worth following, opening up opportunities for researchers and the general public to get acquainted with K. Stabrauskas’s work, and through it, to more deeply feel Čiurlionis’s visual worldview,” – Virginija Vitkienė, head of the National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, is quoted in the statement.
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This is J. Gumbis’s second significant contribution to the museum’s collections this year. Two works by Antanas Žmuidzinavičius donated by him are exhibited in the exhibition “Silent Horizons” dedicated to the artist’s 150th anniversary.
K. Stabrauskas (1869–1929) is one of the key figures in Lithuanian and Polish art of the early 20th century. He headed the Warsaw School of Fine Arts, supported the Lithuanian cultural movement, and participated in the first exhibitions of the Lithuanian Art Society.
