Poster 'Protect against the war'
| Author: | Antoni Jaroszewicz (1870–1956) |
Antanas Jaroševičius was a watercolourist, graphic artist and author of small architecture monuments and various applied arts articles. He was born on 22 July 1870 in Skrebotiškių village, Biržai district. In 1899 he finished the A. Stieglitz School of Art in St. Petersburg. During 1902–1905 he was a teacher at a drawing school in Orlovo and later – at the art school in Kazan. Between 1918 and 1921 he was a lecturer at the Kazan Polytechnic Institute. He collected and systemised ornaments of crosses and roadside poles with statues of saints. At the beginning of the XX century he published in the Vilniaus žinios (Vilnius News), Vairas (Steering-Wheel) and Vaivorykštė (Rainbow) some topical articles on the issues of folk art. In 1912 he published an album Lietuvių kryžiai (Lithuanian Crosses), compiled from A. Jaroševičius’ drawings of crosses made by him during his tour of Lithuania in 1911–1914. In 1921 he returned to his homeland. He settled in Karklynė, a homestead near Giedraičiai and until 1934 worked as a teacher of drawing at a school (progimnazija) in Giedraičiai. In 1928 in Giedraičiai a monument to Lithuania’s freedom defenders who perished in 1920 near Giedraičiai was built according to his design. Antanas Jaroševičius died in Giedraičiai on 17 June 1956.
Antanas Jaroševičius was a watercolourist, graphic artist and author of small architecture monuments and various applied arts articles. He was born on 22 July 1870 in Skrebotiškių village, Biržai district. In 1899 he finished the A. Stieglitz School of Art in St. Petersburg. During 1902–1905 he was a teacher at a drawing school in Orlovo and later – at the art school in Kazan. Between 1918 and 1921 he was a lecturer at the Kazan Polytechnic Institute. He collected and systemised ornaments of crosses and roadside poles with statues of saints. At the beginning of the XX century he published in the Vilniaus žinios (Vilnius News), Vairas (Steering-Wheel) and Vaivorykštė (Rainbow) some topical articles on the issues of folk art. In 1912 he published an album Lietuvių kryžiai (Lithuanian Crosses), compiled from A. Jaroševičius’ drawings of crosses made by him during his tour of Lithuania in 1911–1914. In 1921 he returned to his homeland. He settled in Karklynė, a homestead near Giedraičiai and until 1934 worked as a teacher of drawing at a school (progimnazija) in Giedraičiai. In 1928 in Giedraičiai a monument to Lithuania’s freedom defenders who perished in 1920 near Giedraičiai was built according to his design. Antanas Jaroševičius died in Giedraičiai on 17 June 1956.
