News-Antique.com - Sep 21,2009 - Complete biography of Cheslov Znamierovsky (1890–1977) through never before published in English language historical materials that were uncovered in the archives of National Libraries of Eastern Europe.
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IN CELEBRATION OF THE 75TH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY OF
CHESLOV ZNAMIEROVSKY
In Antakalnis there is a small house. In front of it there is a beautiful garden, which attracts everyone’s attention during the summer. Roses and tulips are blooming here, and rare kinds of dahlias, and many more different flowers the name of which I don’t even know. Every old Vilnius citizen knows that for almost 40 years now the visual artist and painter Cheslov Znamierovsky lives here. He is a person unusually in love with the nature, its colors and beauty, a person who has devoted many years of his constructive life to reflect the beauty of nature. When you enter the artist’s atelier, you will see tens, even hundreds of bigger and smaller canvasses, hanging on the walls or simply placed on the easels. Most of them are landscapes, views. Here you can see everything – the beautiful, wrapped in legend spots of Vilnius, large fields, deep forests, powerful rivers and silent streams, the last beam of the setting sun and the morning dawn, an ice-bound river and a blooming branch in spring. The plastic artist tries to perpetuate on the canvass everything that awakes admiration and excitement, to pass it on to the people.
Cheslov Znamierovsky was born in Latvia, on May 23, 1890 in the family of working intellectuals. After graduating from the high school in Daugavpils (Dzwinsk), the future artist could not take up the vocation for which he had natural talent. He occupied offices in different institutions, worked in offices and as a draftsman. And in only just five years he collected the necessary amount of money and headed to Petersburg in 1912. He started to study painting in the school of the Zacheta Society of Fine Arts and he spent there two years. Obviously this was not a big period of time, but admittedly it had a great impact on him as a future painter.
In 1917, after the revolution in February, Cheslov Znamierovsky went back to Lithuania. And when the Great October Revolution burst, he actively participated in the social and revolutionary works. The artist took part in the formation of the Soviet authority bodies, he was the leader of the Proletarian culture in Ludz district.
Since 1926 Cheslov Znamierovsky has been living in Vilnius. Here he finished his studies in the realm of arts, which he initiated in the Academy of Fine Arts in Petersburg. Intensively working in his creative field, the plastic artist also took an active
