The mother of writer Jurga Ivanauskaitė, art historian Ingrida Korsakaitė died Culture

You can say goodbye to Ingrida Korsakaite on Monday, July 22, from 6 to 9 p.m. and Tuesday, July 23, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. funeral home Olandų st. 22, hall 5.

The urn is taken out on July 23. 12 o’clock

Burial in Antakalnis cemetery in the family grave.

In memory of Ingrida Korsakaitė, the relatives are asking for donations for the construction of the monument to the founders of the Lithuanian Reformation and Lithuanian writing in Vilnius:

Lithuanian Reformation History and Culture Society,
Company code 190763313
AB SEB bankas, account LT69 7044 0600 0090 8619
To the monument “To the Reformation and the pioneers of Lithuanian writing”

Ingrida Korsakaitė, mother of Irmantas Gelūnas/BNS photo/Jurga Ivanauskaitė

I.Korsakaitė was born in 1938. October 31 In the stock exchanges. in 1956 graduated from Vilnius S. Nėries high school, 1961. – St. Petersburg Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, studied art history and theory, acquiring the specialty of art historian.

“In Lithuania at that time, no higher education school trained such specialists, so she became one of the first researchers to outline the directions of art research in that period. in 1970 defended his doctoral thesis in art studies, on the basis of which he published the still relevant monograph “Vivybinga graphic tradition” (1970).

I. Korsakaitė 1961-1990 worked in various Humanities sectors of the humanitarian institutes of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, since 1985 was a senior research associate. 1990-1999 worked at the Institute of Culture and Art.

Ingrida Korsakaitė’s areas of scientific research: Lithuanian graphics, history of illustrating children’s books, diaspora art. He published regarding 200 scientific and art popularization articles on these issues in the Lithuanian and foreign press.

Published publications regarding the works of artists Jonas Kuzminskis, Stasios Krasauskas, Albina Makūnaitė, Rimtautas Gibavičius, Arūnas Tarabildas, Aldona Skirutytė, Juozas Galkaus, Mstislav Dobužinskis, Viktoras Petravičius and others. creativity. It was “20th century co-editor and co-author of Lithuanian Art History” (Vols. 1-3, 1982-1990), one of the compilers and co-author of the publications “Lietuviški elementoriai” (2000) and “Išeivijos dailė” (2003).

She was a scholarship holder of the International Youth Library in Munich (Germany) (1988), interned at the Lithuanian Research and Study Center in Chicago (USA, 1991). She was a member of the Lithuanian Union of Artists, the Society of Lithuanian Art Historians, the Lithuanian Section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), the Lithuanian Section of the International Association of Children and Youth Literature (IBBY), the Lithuanian Reformation History and Culture Society, the publications “Menotyra”, “Dailė”, Latvian art history and theory magazine Makslas. Vesture un teorija” editorial board member.

As prof. wrote when presenting the VDA Honorary Doctor Award. Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, the words “living tradition” in the title of Ingrida Korsakaitė’s first monograph “Living graphic tradition” accurately describe the landmarks and direction of I.Korsakaitė’s professional activity and can be a motto describing her thinking and writing regarding art. Attentive to tradition, precise and meticulous, I. Korsakaitė was not afraid to give in to intuition and passion, which encompassed her when confronted with a work of art that charged her imagination. This gave life to her scientific texts and vitality to her ideas.

I.Korsakaitė was awarded the Order of Grand Duke Gediminas V of Lithuania (1997), the Martynas Mažvydas prize of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania “For services to the Lithuanian state language, written history and book art” (2001), Lauryns Ivinskis prize of the 15th republican calendar competition (2004 ). in 2018 she was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor of the Vilnius Academy of Arts” – it is written in R. Racėnaitė’s post on the social network in Memorial to mom