Rūta Birutė Jokubonienė (14 January 1930 – 14 May 2010) was a
Lithuania
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artist
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Biography
In 1954, Rūta Birutė Jokubonienė graduated from the
Lithuanian Institute of Fine Arts where she studied with
Balčikonis J. Sofia Veiverytė.
From 1954 to 1962, she worked in a factory in
Kaunas
Kaunas (; ) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest List of cities in the Baltic states by population, city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaun ...
. From 1962 to 1985, she worked at the P. Ziberto silk factory in Kaunas, and from 1985 to 1990, she worked at the Restoration Trust for Culture in Vilnius. From 1972 to 1978, she taught at the
Art Institute of Kaunas, Lithuanian Department of the west.
Rūta Jokubonienė created more than 250 multi-purpose fabrics. The first in Lithuania to create a new composition of silk fabrics, they are characterized by rhythmic harmony of subtle colors.
Her work has been acquired by museums in Vilnius and Kaunas, as well as the P.M. Tretjakovo Gallery in Moscow.
MIRĖ GRAFIKĖ IR TEKSTILĖS DAILININKĖ B.JOKŪBONIENĖ
''Bernardinai.lt'', 17 May 2010
Major works
* Silk jacquard wallpaper – A. Pushkin State Museum, Vilnius, 1986
* Silk jacquard wallpaper – T. Shevchenko Museum, Kiev, 1987
* Silky fabric – Verkiai House Ladies room wallpaper, 1987
* Silky fabric wall hangings – Writers' Union, 1988
* Portjeriniai jacquard fabrics – Trakai Palace Vokes, 1987
References
See also
* List of Lithuanian artists
A list of notable Lithuanian artists.
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*Kazys Abromavičius (b. 1928)
*Gediminas Akstinas (b. 1961)
*Romualdas Aleliūnas (1960-2016)
*Zita Alinskaitė-Mickonienė (b. 1939)
*Viktoras Andriušis (1908-1967)
*Aleksas Andriuškevičius ...
* "Rūta Jokubonienė ", ''Lithuanian Wikipedia''
Lithuanian painters
1930 births
2010 deaths
20th-century Lithuanian women artists
21st-century Lithuanian women artists
20th-century women textile artists
20th-century textile artists
21st-century women textile artists
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