{"id":1407,"date":"2022-03-29T00:58:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T21:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.artkaunas.com\/?post_type=kaunas2022&#038;p=1407"},"modified":"2022-06-05T19:52:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T16:52:25","slug":"antanas-samuolis","status":"publish","type":"kaunas2022","link":"https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/kaunas2022\/antanas-samuolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Antanas Samuolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"slider slider-for\">\n\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t<img style='object-fit: scale-down;width: 100%;' class=\"swipe\" data-index='0' data-height='800' data-width='557' data-link=\"https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/Samuolis.jpg\" data-src='https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/Samuolis.jpg' src='https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/Samuolis.jpg' style='margin:0 auto;'>\n\t\t\t\t<p class='aprasymas' style='text-align:center; line-height: 1em;margin-top:10px;'>A. Samuolis. Self-portrait with gramophone. 1929. <\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/06\/10-EN-Antanas-Samuolis.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption><strong>Listen to the story<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Antanas Samuolis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most famous pupils of Kaunas School of Arts, painter Antanas Samuolis, spent the most intense period of his creative life in \u017daliakalnis, Kaunas, a wooden house on Vaisi\u0173 street, among the apple trees. His only trip abroad was rather sad, compulsory due to an illness, he left Kaunas and Lithuania to go for treatment in Switzerland in 1939, where he died in poverty, buried without any loved ones attending and only the cemetery being known nowadays, but not the grave. Today the cemetery fence holds a commemorative plaque with Samuolis\u2019 name, indicating that the famous Lithuanian painter died here (painter Gintautas Vai\u010dys travelled to Switzerland in 2015 and hung the plaque with agreement from the city council).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Up until his going away for treatment in Switzerland, Antanas Samuolis resided in \u017daliakalnis, a wooden building at 16A Vaisi\u0173 Street. Vaisi\u0173 Street was a typical \u017daliakalnis street for the second half of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, comprised solely of wooden houses, narrow streets and garden plots. Samuolis\u2019 low-ceiling room only contained the necessities: a bed, a stool and a table, anything else was dedicated to his art \u2013 easel stands, paintings, paints and brushes \u2013 everything the painter might need at any time had to be within reach. Upon considering the famous Samuolis\u2019 painting \u201cMy Room\u201d (1934), we can see the painter\u2019s vision produced in a scant environment, wherein he manages to create a modern, lively, brightly coloured interior that still grabs one\u2019s vision.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samuolis\u2019 friend, painter Viktoras Vizgirda vividly described the small, low-ceiling room, with paintings and brushes everywhere, after visiting his friend\u2019s home for the first time. Vizgirda was impressed by the general artistic atmosphere: \u201cScattered brushes, paints, flowers, furniture and a strong smell of semi-dried paint fills every inch of the room with a vivid uniformity that could be called a style\u201d. Moreover, Samuolis had, of course, decorated the walls of a wooden house and his own room with painted lilies. Any creative experiences the painter had happened here, in his small room, therefore, Samuolis\u2019 life eventually became highly mysterious to biographers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fantasies were also reinforced by the painter\u2019s nephew, writer Raimundas Samulevi\u010dius, and his memories of the painter\u2019s illness: \u201cI remember uncle Antanas as if in a dream \u2013 in the ground floor window of Vaisi\u0173 St. 16A, behind the glass in a dark room. Uncle\u2019s illness had progressed so far by then, he was worried, he\u2019d infect me as well. Sometimes even now, when I look at this window, I see his face flash there \u2013 obscure, blurred, like an old photograph\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The creation of a peculiar world in a small room is also related to us by one of his most famous self-portraits: \u201cSelf-portrait with a turntable\u201d, created in 1929. The painting shows a tight space with dark corners, elongated by the reflection in the mirror, barely offering enough space for the painter with his contrasting open white shirt, his somewhat fragmented body, as if stepping out of the painting, lets you guess that the space of painter\u2019s thoughts and images is much larger that the real room. One could say that this painting shows the often described, mysterious, \u201csamuolic\u201d atmosphere. And although its rendering in the image can still be interpreted, the sound (the turntable in the foreground) will remain a mystery.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Antanas Samuolis was born in 1899, in Pui\u0161iai Village (Raseiniai County). In 1920\u20131922 he took the famous drawing classes founded by Justinas Vieno\u017einskis. In 1922\u20131929 he studied at Kaunas Art School. One of the most prominent members of the Ars group that was active in 1932\u20131934. 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Today the cemetery fence holds a commemorative plaque with Samuolis\u2019 name, indicating that the famous Lithuanian painter died here (painter Gintautas Vai\u010dys travelled to Switzerland in 2015 and hung the plaque with agreement from the city council).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6619,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Antanas Samuolis - KMMF EN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/kaunas2022\/antanas-samuolis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Antanas Samuolis - KMMF EN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One of the most famous pupils of Kaunas School of Arts, painter Antanas Samuolis, spent the most intense period of his creative life in \u017daliakalnis, Kaunas, a wooden house on Vaisi\u0173 street, among the apple trees. 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