Lithuanian artist vitrazhist
Kazis Morkunas/Kazys Morkūnas/
( 1925 4 March - & dagger; 2014 January 22 )

Professor - a phenomenon among Lithuanian stained glass.Now, when the stained glass is more directed towards the decorative design , his works are notable for the genre, plot sense. Creativity K. Morkūnas characteristic optimism , clearly transmitted idea , Monumental , a single composition , the set of pattern, color , dynamic forms , aspiring motive , flying figures , a clear rhythm, juicy contrasting colors , which are dominated by blue, yellow, red.

Kazis Morkunas in 1946 & ndash; 1951 GG took a studio in Kaunas Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts at the department of decorative monumental painting.
In 1952 he graduated from the Institute of the Latvian SSR , studying with Stasys Ushinskasa.From 1953 he taught at the Art Institute of Lithuania , now the State Academy of Fine Arts ,
1977-1997 yy headed the department of drawing , the artist in 1976 was awarded the title of professor- teacher.

first creative work Kazis Morkūnas began in the postwar years ,
when censorship forbade ideology. One of the stained glass windows created by"undefeated Lithuania"is preserved in the museum of Fort IX in Kaunas. In 1953, one of the first vitrazhistov
in Lithuania did an experiment of several layers of thin fused glass. Stained glass windows of the early period was typical of realistic drawing with ornament , allegories , symbols, decorative stylization.Since the beginning of the seventh decade professor began using glass blocks , connected by concrete , combining different textures of glass. Created the stained glass windows at the world exhibition pavilions with decorative scenes in Moreale"Hymn to Labor"1967., In Osaka"Soviet Youth"1970.Also created decorative scenes from fairy tales"Egle - the queen of snakes"in Druskininkai 1956 & ndash; 1960 and the stained glass windows of colored mirror glass" Morning" 1960.

Started to use conical glass (stained glass memorial in Kryzkalnis" Fighting"and"Work"in 1972 for his work received the State Prize.
in 1972 he created the stained glass window of thin glass"Battle of Zalgiris - 1236"in the cinema" Saule"city of Siauliai, in 1986 The ensemble of 27 stained glass windows in the church of the mountains. Vilkaviskis based on the life of St..Virgin Mary in 1996, St..Virgin Mary at the Department of manifestation, created three portraits of stained glass in school Baltrushaitis in Moscow , panoramic stained-glass window in school in Pune (both in 2005) , in catholic church"God"s image"of the mountains. Utena 2008 ).
In the years of independence, creating stained glass on historical themes , and also religious.

In 1978, the artist created a stained glass window for the Seimas.Stained Glass" Holiday" - the largest stained glass window in Lithuania ( Seimas Palace 1981 ) , in 2011, was to open a stained glass window" The Battle of Zalgiris"in the building of the Seimas.

Kazis Morkunas 1953 participated actively participate in exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad.

January 22, 2014 artist vitrazhist died.

Translated Vladimir Zaychenko


Stained"Battle of Zalgiris"in the foyer of the cinema of Siauliai



Stained glass in the church of the mountains. Utena


Stained glass in the church of the mountains. Utena


Stained glass in the church of the mountains. Utena


Stained" Battle of Zalgiris"in the foyer of the cinema of Siauliai


Stained glass in the palace Wedding mountains. Panevezys


Stained Kazis Morkūnas


Stained glass in the palace of the Seimas


Opening stained glass"The Battle of Zalgiris ( Grunwald ) in the Seimas


Stained"undefeated Lithuania"at the Museum of Fort IX in Kaunas


foyer of the cinema" Saule"the city of Siauliai


Stained"Battle of Zalgiris"in the K/T Siauliai


Stained"Battle of Zalgiris"in the Parliament of the Republic of Latvia