Name: | Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis |
Occupation: | Painter |
Gender: | Male |
Birth Day: | September 22, 1875 |
Death Date: | Apr 10, 1911 (age 35) |
Age: | Aged 35 |
Country: | Lithuania |
Zodiac Sign: | Virgo |
Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis
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He studied piano and composition at the Warsaw Conservatory and took classes in drawing at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts.
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ÄŒiurlionis 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 Polish Prince MichaÅ‚ OgiÅ„ski in PlungÄ—, where he learned to play several instruments, in particular the flute, from 1889 to 1893. Supported by Prince OgiÅ„ski’s ‘scholarship’ ÄŒiurlionis studied piano and composition at 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 from 1901 to 1902.
He returned to Warsaw in 1902 and studied drawing at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts from 1904 to 1906, and became a friend with Polish composer and painter Eugeniusz Morawski-DÄ…browa. His main teacher in Warsaw was symbolist painter Kazimierz Stabrowski, who was also the founder of the first lodges of the Theosophical Society in Poland and passed to ÄŒiurlionis an interest in Theosophy and other esoteric subjects. After the 1905 Russian Revolution, which resulted in the loosening of cultural restrictions on the Empire’s minorities, he began to identify himself as a Lithuanian.
Mikalojus Konstantinas ÄŒiurlionis was born in Senoji VarÄ—na, a town in southeastern Lithuania that at the time was in the Russian Empire. He was the oldest of nine children of his father, Konstantinas, and his mother, AdelÄ— née RadmanaitÄ— (Radmann), who was descended from a Lutheran family of Bavarian origin. Like many educated Lithuanians of the time, ÄŒiurlionis’s family spoke Polish, and he began learning Lithuanian only after meeting his fiancée in 1907. In 1878, his family moved to Druskininkai, 30 mi. (50 km) away, where his father went on to be the town organist.
He was one of the initiators of, and a participant in, the First Exhibition of Lithuanian Art in 1907 at Vileišis Palace, Vilnius. Soon after this event, the Lithuanian Art Society was founded, and Čiurlionis was one of its 19 founding members.
In 1907, he became acquainted with Sofija KymantaitÄ— (1886–1958), an art critic. Through this association ÄŒiurlionis learned to speak better Lithuanian. Early in 1909, he married KymantaitÄ—. At the end of that year, he traveled to St. Petersburg, where he exhibited some of his paintings. On Christmas Eve, ÄŒiurlionis fell into a profound depression and at the beginning of 1910 was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital “Czerwony Dwór” (Red Manor) in Marki, Poland, northeast of Warsaw. While a patient there, he died of pneumonia in 1911 at 35 years of age. He was buried at the Rasos Cemetery in Vilnius. He never saw his daughter DanutÄ— (1910–1995).
In 1911, the first posthumous exhibition of ÄŒiurlionis’s art was held in Vilnius and Kaunas. During the same year, an exhibition of his art was held in Moscow, and in 1912 his works were exhibited in St. Petersburg. In 1944, the main art museum in Kaunas was renamed M. K. ÄŒiurlionis National Art Museum and still hosts the majority of ÄŒiurlionis paintings. In 1957, the Lithuanian community in Chicago opened the ÄŒiurlionis Art Gallery, hosting collections of his works. In 1963, the ÄŒiurlionis Memorial Museum was opened in Druskininkai, in the house where ÄŒiurlionis and his family lived. This museum holds biographical documents as well as photographs and reproductions of the artist’s works. The National M. K. ÄŒiurlionis School of Art in Vilnius was named after him in 1965.
A commemorative plaque has been placed on the building of the former hospital in Marki, Poland where Mikalojus Konstantinas ÄŒiurlionis died in 1911.
ÄŒiurlionis’s works have been displayed at international exhibitions in Japan, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere. His paintings were featured at “Visual Music” fest, an homage to synesthesia that included the works of Wassily Kandinsky, James McNeill Whistler, and Paul Klee, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 2005.
In 2009, Genovaitė Kazokas (Genovaitė Kazokienė [lt]) published Musical Paintings, a book where she argued that Theosophy, esotericism and Spiritualism were important influences on Čiurlionis’ art.
ÄŒiurlionis’s life was depicted in the 2012 film Letters to Sofija, directed by Robert Mullan.
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