Lucja Bałzukiewicz, Portrait of a Young Priest

Liucija Balzukevičiūtė (Lucja Balzukiewicz, 1887-1976)
Portrait of a young priest
1911, drb., al., 86 × 55 cm
Signed. AD: Lucja Balzukiewiczówna/ 1911

Liucija Balzukevičiūtė (Lucja Bałzukiewiczówna, 1887-1976)
Born in Vilnius in 1887, died in 1976 in Lublin (Poland). Daughter of Elena Ušpulevičiūtė of Vincent Balzukiewicz, sister of sculptor Bolesław and painter Józef Balzukiewicz. In 1902-1906 she studied at the Vilnius Drawing School, in 1907 in Paris with the painter Olga Boznańska (1865-1940). During the First World War, together with Ferdinand Ruszczyc, he attempted to establish the "Cech Wileński" (Wileński's Guild), and he restored paintings of Vilnius churches. He painted portraits, landscapes, interiors (often of churches), religious and genre compositions, and floral still-lifes. Portraits are characterised by realism, landscapes by the influence of impressionism. From 1946 he lived in Poland.
His works are in the Lithuanian Art Museum, the National Museum of Art of M. K. Čiurlionis, the National Museum of Lithuania, the National Museum in Warsaw, the Palenque Museum in Bialystok, etc.

Dictionary of Lithuanian Artists: 1795-1918 (compiled by J. Širkaitė, Vilnius, LKTI, 2012): p. (57. Vilnius Drawing School: 1866-1915 (compiled by J. Širkaitė, Vilnius, LKTI, 2017): p. 94)