| Author: | Jadvyga Dobkevičiūtė–Paukštienė (1913–2005) |
Jadvyga Dobkevičiūtė-Paukštienė was a painter and a graphic artist. She was born on 13 June 1913 in Liepaja in Latvia. She completed her studies at Kaunas School of Art under Petras Kalpokas in 1938, and the next year continued in Paris at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. She was awarded a gold medal for a carpet design and a prize for her painting at the International Exposition of Arts and Technology in Modern Life in 1937 in Paris. In 1942 she took part in a synoptical art exhibition by Lithuanian artists. She moved to Germany in 1944, where she taught drawing in a Lithuanian school. She settled in the USA in 1949, and in 1955 began to teach folk art at a Lithuanian high school in Chicago. She was awarded a prize by the Board of Culture of the American Lithuanian Community in 2001. After leaving Lithuania, she showed her work in exhibitions of work by Lithuanian artists in Germany and the USA. She held more than 15 solo shows in Chicago (1954, 1963, 1969, 1978), Los Angeles, Boston, Detroit, New York and Toronto. In 1988, she participated in an exhibition of émigré art in Vilnius. The Lithuanian Art Museum has a large collection of paintings and drawings by Dobkevičiūtė-Paukštienė.
Her work is characterised by social motifs, while her still lifes and landscapes are less numerous. Her early painted works were undoubtedly influenced by Impressionism, but from the 1950s she developed a skill for expressive impersonation and a tendency towards abstract imagery. She died in 2005 in the USA.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES II (2013). Compiler and author Nijolė Tumėnienė.
Jadvyga Dobkevičiūtė-Paukštienė was a painter and a graphic artist. She was born on 13 June 1913 in Liepaja in Latvia. She completed her studies at Kaunas School of Art under Petras Kalpokas in 1938, and the next year continued in Paris at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. She was awarded a gold medal for a carpet design and a prize for her painting at the International Exposition of Arts and Technology in Modern Life in 1937 in Paris. In 1942 she took part in a synoptical art exhibition by Lithuanian artists. She moved to Germany in 1944, where she taught drawing in a Lithuanian school. She settled in the USA in 1949, and in 1955 began to teach folk art at a Lithuanian high school in Chicago. She was awarded a prize by the Board of Culture of the American Lithuanian Community in 2001. After leaving Lithuania, she showed her work in exhibitions of work by Lithuanian artists in Germany and the USA. She held more than 15 solo shows in Chicago (1954, 1963, 1969, 1978), Los Angeles, Boston, Detroit, New York and Toronto. In 1988, she participated in an exhibition of émigré art in Vilnius. The Lithuanian Art Museum has a large collection of paintings and drawings by Dobkevičiūtė-Paukštienė.
Her work is characterised by social motifs, while her still lifes and landscapes are less numerous. Her early painted works were undoubtedly influenced by Impressionism, but from the 1950s she developed a skill for expressive impersonation and a tendency towards abstract imagery. She died in 2005 in the USA.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES II (2013). Compiler and author Nijolė Tumėnienė.