The works of this prominent symbolist, the founder of the Warsaw School of Art, were handed over to the museum by patron Jaunius Gumbis.
The museum calls the collection one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of K. Stabrauskas’ works in Lithuania. It consists of works of pastel and oil painting, representing the mystical and symbolist direction of the artist’s work.
Until now, the museum has preserved two works by K. Stabrauskas.
“My main emotion is great gratitude for the collector’s philanthropy, which has so far been very rare, but encouraging to follow, which opens opportunities for researchers and the general public to get to know K. Stabrauskas’ work, and through it to feel more deeply the visual worldview of Čiurlionis”, Virginija Vitkienė, head of the National MK Čiurlionis Art Museum, is quoted in the report.
This is the second significant contribution of Mr. Gumbis to the museum collections this year. Two works of Antanas Žmuidzinavičius donated by him are exhibited in the exhibition “Silent horizons” dedicated to the artist’s 150th anniversary.
K. Stabrauskas (1869–1929) is one of the key figures in Lithuanian and Polish art of the beginning of the 20th century. He headed the Warsaw Art School, supported the Lithuanian cultural movement, and himself participated in the first exhibitions of the Lithuanian Art Society.
