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A view of Subačiaus Street

Author: Koźma Czuryło (1908–1951)

The artist was born and grew up near Nesvizh, and is recorded as a student at Stephen Batory University under the name of Koźma Czuryło when he studied in the Department of Art from 1929 to 1936. His contemporaries remember him and another student, Lew Dobrzyński, who was also of Byelorussian origin, as the most talented students of Ludomir Sleńdziński and Jerzy Hoppen. He was considered to be a true representative of the school of Vilnius Neo-Classicism, although he only visited Italy, the homeland of the new Classicism, in 1937, under both happy and sad circumstances. That year, he married Wanda, the sister of his peer Idelfons Houwalt, and after the death of his friend Dobrzyński, he inherited the grant that had been awarded to him by the Cultural Foundation of Poland, thanks to which the young couple were able to go abroad. With the outbreak of the war in 1939, the Czuryłos returned to Vilnius. Czuryło participated in exhibitions between 1939 and 1941, but during the Nazi occupation he abandoned his cultural activities in order to look after his wife’s farm near Vilnius. In 1945, he and his wife and three-year-old son moved to Poznań, and in 1946 he started lecturing at Toruń University. He died in 1951 in Gdańsk, and was buried in the Orthodox section of the military cemetery.

Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: MORE THAN JUST BEAUTY (2012). Compiler and author Giedrė Jankevičiūtė.

The artist was born and grew up near Nesvizh, and is recorded as a student at Stephen Batory University under the name of Koźma Czuryło when he studied in the Department of Art from 1929 to 1936. His contemporaries remember him and another student, Lew Dobrzyński, who was also of Byelorussian origin, as the most talented students of Ludomir Sleńdziński and Jerzy Hoppen. He was considered to be a true representative of the school of Vilnius Neo-Classicism, although he only visited Italy, the homeland of the new Classicism, in 1937, under both happy and sad circumstances. That year, he married Wanda, the sister of his peer Idelfons Houwalt, and after the death of his friend Dobrzyński, he inherited the grant that had been awarded to him by the Cultural Foundation of Poland, thanks to which the young couple were able to go abroad. With the outbreak of the war in 1939, the Czuryłos returned to Vilnius. Czuryło participated in exhibitions between 1939 and 1941, but during the Nazi occupation he abandoned his cultural activities in order to look after his wife’s farm near Vilnius. In 1945, he and his wife and three-year-old son moved to Poznań, and in 1946 he started lecturing at Toruń University. He died in 1951 in Gdańsk, and was buried in the Orthodox section of the military cemetery.

Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: MORE THAN JUST BEAUTY (2012). Compiler and author Giedrė Jankevičiūtė.