{"id":22521,"date":"2023-12-20T11:12:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T09:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/prano-domsaicio-galerija\/renginiai\/presentation-of-a-renewed-permanent-display-of-pranas-domsaitis-artwork-visitors-museum-experience-to-be-enriched-by-innovative-solutions\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T11:12:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T09:12:54","slug":"presentation-of-a-renewed-permanent-display-of-pranas-domsaitis-artwork-visitors-museum-experience-to-be-enriched-by-innovative-solutions","status":"publish","type":"renginys","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/pranas-domsaitis-gallery\/events\/presentation-of-a-renewed-permanent-display-of-pranas-domsaitis-artwork-visitors-museum-experience-to-be-enriched-by-innovative-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentation of a renewed permanent display of Pranas Dom\u0161aitis\u2019 artwork: visitors\u2019 museum experience to be enriched by innovative solutions\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pranas Dom\u0161aitis Gallery of the LNMA invites to the opening of Always on the Road,<\/i> a renewed permanent exhibition of the artwork by the celebrated expressionist Pranas Dom\u0161aitis.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The renewed display brings the content closer to contemporary visitors\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The visitors to Pranas Dom\u0161aitis Gallery will be able to see around two hundred of the artist\u2019s pieces: oil paintings, water colours and pastel works, drawings, embroidery compositions and two-side pictures set in special structures. The display is organized both chronologically and thematically.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Visitor-experience in the gallery will be heightened by contemporary approach to museum space.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018The renewed exhibition of Dom\u0161aitis is enhanced by the integrated multimedia elements tailored to visitors in different age groups and of different experience. The museum seeks to create innovative products of lasting value as facilitators bringing the content nearer to contemporary visitors and leading into a deeper acquaintance with the art by Pranas Dom\u0161aitis. That will also add to the museum\u2019s attractivity and inclusivity, the accessibility and dissemination of its content,\u2019 Skaist\u0117 Mar\u010dien\u0117, director of Pranas Dom\u0161aitis Gallery elaborates on their new solutions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Over six hundred art pieces by Dom\u0161aitis were gifted to Lithuania by the Lithuanian Foundation operating in the US, which acquired the works from the artist\u2019s widow, Adelheid Armhold. Thanks to the joint efforts of the organization and museum curators, the biggest part of the painter\u2019s legacy is preserved at the LNMA. Since 2001, a part of his work is on permanent display in Klaip\u0117da, in close proximity to the painter\u2019s childhood\u2019s home.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Born in Kruopynai, a small village in East Prussia (now Kaliningrad Region, <\/span>Gayevo<\/span>), the painter Pranas Dom\u0161aitis (1880 \u2013 1965) is one of the most acclaimed representatives of the Lithuanian exile art. In 1907 \u2013 1910, he studied painting at the Konigsberg Art Academy. His art was influenced by 20th-century European modern art and the dominant contemporary trends. In Germany, alongside with the popular at the time Impressionism, a new movement of Expressionism was taking shape. The budding artist was moulded through interactions with the established artists of the time. Already in 1914, Dom\u0161aitis visited Edward Munch, painter and graphic artist, and the trailblazer of Expressionism.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In Germany Dom\u0161aitis was famed as a creator of expressionistic landscapes and biblical compositions. He received substantial coverage by the cultural press, and his works were acquired by the National Gallery in Berlin, museums in K\u00f6nigsberg, <\/span>L\u00fcbeck, Szczecin, and by private collectors. Petras Dom\u0161aitis exhibited in group shows alongside such celebrities of German art as Hermann Max Pechstein, Otto Dix, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and others.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018The artist left for us a myth, an unusual, but also a wondrous world of dreams,\u2019 these words by Telesforas Valius, an <\/span>\u00e9migr\u00e9<\/span> graphic artist, epitomize the creative legacy of Pranas Dom\u0161aitis.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The internationally acclaimed artist Pranas Dom\u0161aitis: Lithuanian blood does not lie\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With the German National Socialist Party\u2019s rise to power in 1933, the altered political course influenced also the artists in Germany. The new government perceived modern art as worthless. The artwork by the Modernists was banned from the museum displays and moved over to the so-called Degenerate Art Exhibitions, which showed examples of unacceptable art.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dom\u0161aitis, who was nourished by two cultures, German and Lithuanian, and established himself on the international art stage, would always emphasize his roots, saying: \u2018Lithuanian blood does not lie, just like my pictures do not. They are Lithuanian for real.\u2019\u00a0 In 1920, in Kaunas the painter received a passport of the Republic of Lithuania, while around 1938, he started signing his work as \u2018Domsaitis\u2019, using a Lithuanian equivalent of his name.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In post-war Austria he met Lithuanian <\/span>\u00e9migr\u00e9<\/span> artists and took part in the international war refugee exhibitions, for the first part, as a Lithuanian artist. The ties with the <\/span>\u00e9migr\u00e9<\/span> community established here were to last for a life-time. In 1949, the artist, with his wife Adelheid Armhold left for South Africa. They settled in Cape Town where he soon was integrated into the local cultural life. He gave solo shows, represented the country at the San Paolo Biennial. In 1946, he won the South African Prize of the Artist of Fame and Promise.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pranas Dom\u0161aitis Gallery invites its visitors on a journey\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018The artist had once said that he \u201cis always on the road\u201d, referring to his constant changes of place and his creative explorations. As a curator working on a new display of Dom\u0161aitis\u2019 art, I also felt like on a journey, exploring his biography and making selection of the artwork to go on show. I invite everyone to hit the road of familiarization with the painter\u2019s art and with Dom\u0161aitis as an individual, a personality highly colourful and dedicated to art,\u2019 Dr Au\u0161ra Trak\u0161elyt\u0117 shares her experience of curating the new exhibition.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Visitors to the renewed exhibition at the gallery will see the early work by the painter, the landscapes of Pomorze, Bavaria, Austria, of southern countries, colourful flower compositions, still lifes, portraits of the people of different countries and views of their everyday life, biblical scenes rendered in medieval mystical atmosphere, together with the most mature and powerful work of his late years.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The expanded new exhibition invites you and promises \u2018a magical opening of reality\u2019 to quote Pranas Dom\u0161aitis himself.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The renewed permanent display of Pranas Dom\u0161aitis work <\/span>Always on the Road<\/span><\/i> opens at 5 p.m. 21 December at Pranas Dom\u0161aitis Gallery of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art (Liep\u0173 St 33, LT-92145, Klaip\u0117da)\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition curator: Dr Au\u0161ra Trak\u0161elyt\u0117\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition architect: Vladas Balsys\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Graphic designer: Laura Grigali\u016bnait\u0117\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Coordinators: Skaist\u0117 Mar\u010dien\u0117, Aurelija Malinauskait\u0117\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lithuanian language proofreader: Laura Patiomkinait\u0117-\u010ceik\u0117\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

English language translator: Aleksandra Fominait\u0117\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Audio-guide text writer: Alg\u0117 Gudaityt\u0117\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Project financed by\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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