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“Lithuanian culture has lost an art history expert, an expert, a scholar, a polyglot, a museum specialist, and an excellent exhibition organizer. Everyone you know has lost a warm, sincere, free, playful, and infinitely loving person. The “living encyclopedia” was what his colleagues called it because of its amazing baggage of knowledge. Only he was able to discover the mysterious connections between several hundred works of art and exhibitions, seeing its wide context. Only he was able to organize a professional and scientific-based exhibition and exhibition of a collection of works that are sometimes very complex, ”says the report by the National Museum of Art M.K. Čiurlionis.
According to his colleagues, Osvaldas Many saw the direction of the museum’s development very clearly, up to the level of professionalism. Thus, it was able to gain the status of a national museum (1997), tirelessly popularized the works of M.K. Citurionis to properly present it in the museums of the world. At the beginning of independence, he managed to present the works of Čiurlionis in detail for the first time abroad, in Tokyo (1992). He soon became familiar with the artist’s works on almost every continent, and his work was exhibited alongside the works of Mondrian, Klee, Kandinsky, Van Gogh, and Russian symbolists. Important retrospective exhibitions have been held in Cologne (1998), Paris (2000), Grenoble (2001), Warsaw (2001), Poznan (2001), Copenhagen (2007), Kiev (2008), Vilnius (2009), Tallinn (2010 ), Ghent (2013), Riga (2014), Krakow (2015). It was thanks to O. Daugelis that the name M.K. Čiurlionis finally entered legally into the history of European art.
“Numerous awards show how much this man has done in revealing the art of Lithuania and other countries: Osvaldas Daugelis was a Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit, an officer of the Royal Order Leopold of Belgium II, Knight of the Orange-Nassau Order , received the Order of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Lithuania, silver medal from the mayor of the city of Kaunas, Jonas Vileišis, Gold Badge of Honor “Bring your light and believe”, Order of the Commander of the Latvian Cross of Recognition, Cavalry Cross of the Polish Order of Merit.
There were unfinished items on his desk, books that had just been purchased and donated to the museum, letters that had not been answered, works were being prepared in the depots for a trip to Poland, an exhibition that he had organized but would no longer be published. . Everyone’s compassion reminds me once again how many like-minded people I had. How many “official acquaintances” became close friends? Her exceptional personality, who was able to make everyone feel welcome, allowed us all to feel like her friends, ”the report reads.
Osvaldas Daugelis was born in 1955. October 6 In Naujamiestis, Panevezys district. He studied in the graphics department of the Kaunas Juozas Naujalis Secondary School of Art. 1979 Graduated from Vilnius Institute of Art, specialized in art theory and history. In August of the same year. began working at the M.K. Citurionis Museum of Art, painting department, senior associate researcher; 1988 March. He became the head of this department and, from October, the deputy director of scientific affairs. From 1992 November 9 to 2019 March 1 he held the position of director of the M.K.Čiurlionis National Museum of Art.
You can say goodbye to Osvaldas Daugelis at the M.K.Ciurlionis Art Museum (V.Putvinskio St. 55, Kaunas) on July 24. 10 a.m. at 9 p.m., July 25 10 a.m. at 1 p.m. The urn is removed at 1 p.m. Buried in the Kaunas Petrašiūnai Cemetery.
S t. Mass is offered on July 24. 6 p.m. Archcathedral Basilica of Kaunas (Vilniaus, st. 1, Kaunas)
Organizers ask to honor the deceased with a ring of white flowers.
July 25 and 26. The museum exhibitions will be closed.
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