Cape Town Lens: Bernardine Garden (1933)

A Cape Town District Six Museum tagged image from photographer – A.Davey as published on Flickr.

Bernardine Garden (1933)

Image by A.Davey

Juozas Kamarauskas
Watercolor on paper
35.5 cm x 106 cm
Vilnius Gallery of Art
Vilnius, Lithuania

The Bernardine Garden (previously known as Sereikiškės Park), in Lithuanian Bernardinų sodas, in Polish ogród Bernardyński or ogród Bernardynów’is a public park in the city of Vilnius, Lithuania. It is located on the right bank of the Vilnia River between the Gediminas Tower and Bernardine Monastery and it covers over 9 hectares. Most of its territory is parkland, divided in the monastery exposition, the botanic exposition and other recreational territory including a children’s amusement park. It hosts a variety of festivals and exhibitions, including an amateur chess championship of Ostap Bender.[2]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardinai_Garden

(This biography was slightly mistranslated by Goofle.)

Artist, architect, engineer. Born in 1874 April 29 Skauradai (Širvintos district, now Sirvintos district) died in 1946. October 9 In Vilnius. Buried in Vilnius Antakalnis Cemetery.

Born in Skauradai village (Vilkmergė county), farmer Mykolas Kamarauskas and Ieva Uršulė in Sadauskaitė-Kamarauskienė family. Six more children grew up in Joseph’s family.

Joseph studied at several local church schools. 10 years of self-learning to draw.

Without access to higher education in his homeland, 1893 In August, J. Kamarauskas went to study at the Stiglitz School of Technical Drawing in St. Petersburg, where he graduated from the Department of Architecture as a free listener of skills at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. He studied at the Stiglico Technical Drawing School and the Art Academy in 1893–1897.

1897-1910 worked for the construction of the Northwest Railway Railways. engineer office (1897-1899 construction of railway in Varena-Suwalki-Grodno, railways between Moscow-Vindava and St. Petersburg-Vitebsk, St. Petersburg-Carskoye Selo in 1899–1905; .

1910-1914 was the head of the St. Petersburg building division, after 1917. – Architect of Petrograd City and Governor.

While studying and working in Russia, J. Kamarauskas constantly visited Lithuania.

When the First World War began, in 1916 J. Kamarauskas was also mobilized until 1917. served in the First Railway Battalion.

After 1917 In October, J. Kamarauskas was appointed architect and architect of St. Petersburg City and Governor and extraordinary superintendent and was seconded to the navy, where he worked until 1922, before returning to Vilnius.

From 1922 lived in Vilnius until 1939 had no permanent job. Earned by random work for living: restored and copied paintings of religious content to provincial churches and manors, made various construction projects, painted posters (mostly for opposition parties), pictures of household genres, exlibris, made plans of Vilnius city, drew blocks of blocks, designed postage stamps, money banknotes. , worked in various institutions.

Since 1939 worked for Vilnius Engineer and Architect Board, 1940-1945 – various educational and cultural institutions in Vilnius.
The first in drawings and drawings began to capture objects of cultural heritage in Lithuania.

Created about 4,000 graphics and painting works. One of the most important drawings and drawings of the 40 old streets of Vilnius Old Town destroyed during the Second World War. Each building was painted by a painter from the nature and then, according to the scratched postures, moved to the street tile at the appropriate scale.

Drawn panoramas of Vilnius, Kaunas, Grodno, Trakai and other castles, towns and towns, ancient architectural monuments, as well as created exlibris, posters, postage stamps, restored paintings. The genre of drawings ranges from non-romantic historical landscapes to accurate documentaries. His works include Lithuanian Art Museum (about 400), Lithuanian National Museum, Vytautas the Great War Museum, Trakai History Museum.
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