Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Adomas Jakševičius

[Lithuania] (b 1908/d 1967)


Adomas Jakševičius was a Sculptor and Church Decorator...after graduating from the high School , he did not proceed his studies... his father Vincent Jakševičius , a renowned Sculptor , saw in him a Great Artistic Talent  and decided to personally manage his Superior Education...So Adomas take lessons of several Art disciplines, Art history, painting, Sculpture,etc.. in 1928 he designed and built the Freedom Monument  and helped his father in the following years...In the postwar years he created tombstone sculptures, religious paintings, statues of saints, decorated churches and was involved in several other Art activities...

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Lithuania 1934 "Air Mail : Darius and Girenas" (6,5,2) [Recess (Bradbury Wilkinson & Co.)] Sc(C82,C84)







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