Feliksas Jakubauskas

Feliksas Jakubauskas (born 14 October 1949 in Liepāja) is a Lithuanian textile artist.[1][2]

Biography

In 1974-1976, he studied textiles at the Lithuanian Institute of Art, 1976–1980, and at The Budapest Academy of Applied Arts. In 1981-1989, he worked as an artist of individual designers clothing factory, "daisy" in Vilnius.

Major works

• Glass beads game, 1985
• Above the valley of my black cloud, 1987
• Old cloth, 1987
• Butterfly mm fan, the World Bank, Washington, 1992
• Rain in a sunny meadow, 1995
• Touch the gray cloud, 1997
• Day night, 2004
• Raw nocturne, Triptych, 2000
• The sky is black - green sky, Triptych, 2002
• Golden Baroque Vilnius, Diptych, 2003–2004,
• The two worlds of Matthew, diptych, 2004

Since 1980, he has shown in more than 170 exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad.

Individual exhibitions

• Bergen - 1991
• Vilnius - 1992, 1995–1997, 1999, 2001, 2005
• Kaunas - 1998, 1999, 2003, 2010[3]
• Nida, Moscow - 1999
• Lodz, Poland - 2001
• Kedainiai - 2004

His works to Lithuanian Art Museum, the Lithuanian National Museum, National Museum of Fine Arts Čiurlionis [4]

Awards

• 1997 - International Biennial, Pittsburgh, Ohio - Grand Prix
• 1998 - Lithuanian National Prize
• 1998 - International Textile Triennial, Lodz, Poland - silver medal
• 2003 - Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Korea - Gold Dragon statue

See also

• List of Lithuanian painters

References

1. http://www.ldm.lt/Parodos/F_Jokubausko_paroda.htm
2. http://www.americantapestryalliance.org/Members/NLv31n3/NLv31n3p3.html
3. http://www.tdg.lt/news/news-22/
4. Nijolė Žilinskienė. "Feliksas Jakubauskas". Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija, T. VIII (Imhof-Junusas). V.: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas, 2005, 484 psl.

• This article was initially translated from Lithuanian wikipedia