{"id":22238,"date":"2023-09-25T22:14:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T19:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/prano-domsaicio-galerija\/renginiai\/karl-eulensein-the-most-famous-expressionist-from-klaipeda-on-display-at-pranas-domsaitis-gallery\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T22:14:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T19:14:59","slug":"karl-eulensein-the-most-famous-expressionist-from-klaipeda-on-display-at-pranas-domsaitis-gallery","status":"publish","type":"renginys","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/pranas-domsaitis-gallery\/events\/karl-eulensein-the-most-famous-expressionist-from-klaipeda-on-display-at-pranas-domsaitis-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Eulensein, the most famous expressionist from Klaip\u0117da, on display at Pranas Dom\u0161aitis Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>An international exhibition Karl Eulenstein (1892\u20131981). Returning to Klaip\u0117da<\/em>\u00a0is the eleventh joint event at the gallery aimed to present and promote the artistic heritage of East Prussia through continued collaboration between The East Prussian Regional Museum (L\u00fcneburg, Germany) and the Lithuanian National Museum of Art.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The idea to hold an exhibition of Karl Eulenstein\u2019s work was inspired by an important gift of 15 paintings and books illustrated by the artist received by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art. The works were gifted by Ekkehard Hildebrandt, the son of one of the best friends of the artist on 19 May last year. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Skaist\u0117 Mar\u010dien\u0117, director of Pranas Dom\u0161aitis Gallery, shines light on the importance of the gallery\u2019s international collaborations: \u2018The close links with the foreign museums enable us to bring back to Lithuania \u2013 temporarily or permanently \u2013 the artists who were born and worked here. The long-standing and cherished collaboration with the East Prussia Regional Museum opens opportunities to get to know better the views, the history and creative spirit of Klaip\u0117da region, such as when it inspired, supported and \u2018haunted\u2019 Karl Eulenstein and other artists who experienced the charms of these lands.\u2019<\/p>\n

Karl Eulenstein is one of the most famous artists who came from Klaip\u0117da.\u00a0 He was born 25 August 1892, into a big family of a steamer captain. His German father and Lithuanian mother lived in a suburb of Did\u017eioji Vilt\u0117. The artist later recalled his childhood: \u2018We lived in Klaip\u0117da, on the shore of the lagoon, so close to water, and my impressions are still vivid and immediate, unforgettable indeed\u2019. In Klaip\u0117da, Karl worked for a merchant\u2019s office. In 1919, he enrolled into the Art Academy of Konigsberg and lived there after graduation before moving to Berlin. He retained links with his birthplace and visited the region of Klaip\u0117da, as a free artist, until the very summer of 1944. \u00a0As the war was drawing to an end, his workshop and his artwork got burned during the bombing of Berlin. He continued living and working from Berlin until his death.<\/p>\n

Eulenstein\u2019s work is dominated by the motifs of the seafront and the nature of lagoon shores, by the views of his native Klaip\u0117da and scenes of simple fishermen\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

Dr J\u00f6rn Barfod, a co-curator of the joint exhibition and expert on the heritage of East Prussia, thus describes the painter\u2019s work: \u2018Eulenstein succeeded in finding a new, independent visual language to depict the Klaip\u0117da region and the ancient motifs. <\u2026> His intense blue, red, yellow, occasionally, tender green or light grey are fascinating, yet the darkness and heaviness of prewar years keeps haunting every piece. \u00a0The colour black with simpler, but strong contours, occasionally looks almost flat and dominating. The artist was obviously influenced by the art of Emile Nolde and George Rouault. However, his artwork cannot be aligned precisely with one or another movement. Therefore, the terms of \u201cexpressionism\u201d or \u201clate expressionism\u201d fit his art only in a special, \u201ceulenstein\u2019s\u201d way.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aurelija Malinauskait\u0117, a Lithuanian co-curator of the exhibition, traces the trajectory of the artist\u2019s life: \u2018The fate of his art parallels that of Klaip\u0117da or East Prussia. When in the early 1030s, nazi Germany started a campaign against modern art calling it \u201cdegenerate\u201d a dozen of the artist\u2019s paintings got confiscated. At the end of WII, nearly all of his work was lost in the bombardment of Berlin. Afterwards, the artist created views from memory of his native land. Fragmented resurfacing pictures of Klaip\u0117da, melancholic views of waterfront nature, motifs with fishermen and their women are recognizable throughout the entire Eulenstein\u2019s postwar corpus. The exhibition shows what are his letters to motherland he kept writing throughout his life.\u2019<\/p>\n

Karl Eulenstein (1892\u20131981). Returning to Klaip\u0117da<\/em> features paintings from the high-quality collections by the East Prussia Regional Museum and The Lithuanian National Museum of Art. The paintings in tempera and watercolour, an occasional specimen of graphic art represent mostly the artist\u2019s postwar period, when he created memory pictures of his native Klaip\u0117da region.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The exhibition <\/strong>will run through 3 March 2024. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Exhibition co-curators: \u00a0Dr J\u00f6rn Barfod, Aurelija Malinauskait\u0117<\/p>\n

Exhibition coordinator: Aurelija Malinauskait\u0117<\/p>\n

Designer Loreta Uzdrait\u0117<\/p>\n

Exhibition sponsor:\u00a0 Klaip\u0117da City Municipality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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