Spas, dunes and rural pleasures: in Lithuanian resorts – an exhibition about artists’ trip | Tradition

Palanga is the primary cease of the exhibition, then the exhibition will journey to Nida, Birštonas. The exhibition tells the tales of probably the most well-known interwar artists: Vincės Jonuskaitė-Zaunienė, Ona Zabielaitė-Karvelienė, Gražina Matulaitytė-Rannitė, Teofilija Vaičiūnienė, Antanina Vainiūnaitė, Olga Dubeneckienė, Kipri ​​Petrauskas, Boris Dauguvietis, Olga Malėjinaitė, Adele Galaunienė, Andriaus Oleka-Žilinskas, Petros Kubertavičius and trip tales from different creators.

After Lithuania declared its independence, the accelerating and modernizing life shaped new habits. As quickly because the climate warmed up and the final efficiency thundered away, the town streets emptied. The rising significance of resorts led to the objective that each county ought to have not less than one such space. Consequently, Lithuania may boast of a double-digit variety of resorts within the Nineteen Forties.

The most well-liked interwar vacation vacation spot is Palanga, the place, as they are saying, all of Kaunas disappears for the summer season. Palanga beckoned with the chance to get wholesome, with heat baths and leisure that moved from Kaunas for the summer season. Within the exhibition, you will note how the women posed on the seaside with their pals, how they frolicked with their households. Along with musical leisure and dances, you might be invited to the summer season cinema, theater, concert events, king and queen elections, horse races, holidays or to play a tennis match.

It has been stated that the Curonian Spit is of nice magnificence and price seeing simply as a lot as Spain or Italy. The settlements of Smiltynė, Juodkrantė and Nida have been probably the most appropriate for holidays, which may simply be reached from Klaipėda by well-developed water transport. The exhibition options ballerina Olga Dubeneckienė-Kalpokienė amongst fishermen’s nets and genuine footage from the summer season residences.

For a extra comfy trip, artists additionally selected resorts close to the momentary capital. After Aukštaja Panemune grew to become a resort, it was geared up with all of the attributes: medical sanatoriums, Kurhaus, cafe-restaurant and villas and summer season homes for hire. Kaunas officers used to spend their summers in Lampedii, who rented flats and moved there with their households for the summer season. Kačerginė, a favourite of artists, resembled the Curonian Spit with its forests and “dunes”. In Kulautuva, summer season vacationers may keep in villas, a contemporary resort or the “Poilsio” sanatorium with all of the pleasures of a spa.

Stage artists might possibly be met not solely on the seaside or within the hinterland, but in addition within the broadly unfold resorts of Lithuania. Theatergoers have been particularly drawn to Birutė and Vytautas springs, therapeutic mud baths in Biršton. The artist Mstislavas Dobužinskis fairly often rested within the legendary “White Villa”. The pictures exhibited within the exhibition characteristic great landscapes, picnicking and resting artists.

A vacation within the backyard is a good alternative to relaxation and go to different Lithuanian cities and cities. A number of the artists had purchased their very own homesteads or had dad and mom, family members or pals who lived within the province and supplied them the thrill of the countryside in the summertime. Summer season vacationers within the countryside escaped from the hustle and bustle of the town and plunged right into a quiet, idyllic life. Consequently, the director of the State Theater Borisas Dauguvietis mightn’t think regarding a greater trip than in his hometown.

Theater, opera and ballet artists didn’t neglect the work they introduced with them throughout their vacation within the village: some wrote texts, some composed music, and a few realized new roles. So, Could events are organized on weekends for distraction. Getting ready provides for winter was an integral a part of summer season. Within the frames of the exhibition, moments of the peaceable circulate of time are captured: Kipras Petrauskas and Juozas Mažeika are fishing, Boris Dauguvietis is brewing beer or helping in wheat harvesting…

Bettering financial situations and new communication alternatives have created situations for touring not solely in Lithuania, but in addition in Europe, and even to different continents. Working days have been extremely popular among the many artists, administrators, conductors or scenographers of the State Theater. Whereas finding out or bettering in overseas theaters, they may additionally personal and check out overseas resorts. Many world artists have been seen throughout their excursions. The soloist Kipras Petrauskas toured quite a bit, and even sang twice on the Colon Theater in Buenos Aires.

The exhibition “Artist’s Trip Between the Wars: Resorts, Dune Goddesses and Countryside Delights” consists of 5 associated and complementary components. The exhibition displays archival photographs, letters, private belongings – the primary vacation attributes and costumes – testifying to the artists’ vacation hobbies.

Exhibition companions: VšĮ “Alexandre Vassiliev” Basis, Palanga Resort Museum, Historic Presidency, Birštonas Museum, Neringa Museums.

Displays lent by: Lithuanian Nationwide Artwork Museum, Nationwide MK Čiurlionis Artwork Museum, Kaunas Metropolis Museum, Maironis Museum of Lithuanian Literature, Zarasai Museum, Trakai Historical past Museum, Birštonas Museum, Historic Presidency, Birštonas Museum, Central Archives of the State of Lithuania, VšĮ “Alexandre Vassiliev” Basis , A. Baranauskas and A. Vienuolis-Žukauskas Memorial Museum, Vincos Mykolaitis-Putin Museum, Šauliai Aušra Museum.

The inventive crew of the exhibition:

Curators: Marija Navickaitė, Nideta Jarockienė

Structure: Ieva Šimkonytė

Graphic design: Ona Vėliūtė

Technical manufacturing: Audrius Janulevičius

Technical implementation: MB Meeting fairies