Kuzminskis Jonas Mikolo

Biography of Kuzminskis Jonas Mikolo

Kuzminskis Jonas (1906-85), Lithuanian graphic artist, people’s artist (1965), full member of the Academy of Arts (1975). He creatively used the traditions of Lithuanian folk lubok (cycles “Vilnius”, 1942-57, “Based on Lithuanian folk and revolutionary songs”, 1960-66).

State awards: State Prize of the Lithuanian SSR (1967).

He worked in the children’s magazine “Zhiburelis” (“Ogonyok”) and the magazine “Culture” (1930s), as an engraver-lithographer in a printing house in Vilnius (1935-1941), a master-instructor at the Vilnius Academy of Arts (1942-1943). Taught at: Academy of Arts and Art Institute of the Lithuanian SSR, Vilnius (since 1944), consultant professor (1983-1985).

Works

Works (woodcut, etching, linocut, lithography) include landscapes, prints on folk songs and rural labor, and portraits, including

• “Plowman”,
• “Praying Mantis” (both – 1933),
• cycle “Vilnius” (1942-1957),
• “Ford through Dubisa” (1942),
• “All the girls would have sat down at me” (1960),
• “Oh flies, a flock of swans flies” (1963),
• “I Am a Man” (1964), “On the Other Side of the Lake, Three Linden Trees Bloomed” (1965);
• also illustrations and book design – “Mill of Baltaragis” by K. Boruta (1945),
• “Anyksciai Bor” by A. Baranauskas (1952),
• “Favorites” by A. Strazdas (1955),
• “Where is the white city” S. Neris (1963),
• “The Sorcerer” V. Kreve (1982), bookplates.
• Departmental and other awards:
• Silver and Bronze medals of the World Exhibition in Paris (1937),
• diplomas of the All-Union competitions for the best edition of the year (1970, 1982).