M.K. Ciurlionis

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (September 22 [O.S. September 10] 1875 in Old Varėna—April 10 [O.S. March 28] 1911 in Pustelnik near Warsaw) was a Lithuanian painter and composer. During his short life he created about 200 pieces of music and painted about 300 paintings.[1] Most of his paintings are collected in the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania. His works have had a profound influence on modern Lithuanian culture.

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (September 22 [O.S. September 10] 1875 in Old Varėna—April 10 [O.S. March 28] 1911 in Pustelnik near Warsaw) was a Lithuanian painter and composer. During his short life he created about 200 pieces of music and painted about 300 paintings.[1] Most of his paintings are collected in the M.

K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania. His works have had a profound influence on modern Lithuanian culture. Čiurlionis was the oldest of nine children of his father, Constantine, and his mother, Adele. In 1878 his family moved to Druskininkai, where his father became town organist.

Čiurlionis studied piano and composition at the Warsaw Conservatory (1894-1899). Later he attended composition lectures at the Leipzig Conservatory (1901-1902), and studied drawing at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts (1904-1906). He was one of the initiators and a participant of the First Exhibition of Lithuanian Art that took place in Vilnius in 1907. Soon after this event the Lithuanian Union of Arts was founded, Čiurlionis being one of its founding nineteen members. His symphonic poems In the Forest (Miške) and The Sea (Jūra) were performed only posthumously. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL..