Chiurlionis Mikalojus Konstantinas

1875 der. Varena, Lithuania - 1911, Pustelki near Warsaw. He graduated from the Music Institute at the Conservatory in Warsaw, perfected in the Conservatory in Leipzig. Studied in drawing classes and art school in Warsaw (1902-06). Participates in exhibitions since 1907. He visited the Crimea and the Caucasus, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. In 1907, became one of the organizers of the Lithuanian Art Society. In 1908 he moved to St. Petersburg and becomes a party of Russian artistic life. In music and paintings Churlionis - reflections on the nature and the universe. His original pictorial concept was influenced by the philosophy of symbolism and cosmism color compositions are imbued with musical harmony. From 1910 was in the hospital for the mentally ill in Pustelkah. His works are in the State Art Museum of. MK. Ciurlionis in Kaunas, etc.. museums in Russia and Lithuania.