Background
K. Šimonis was born on August 25, 1887 in Starkonys, near Kupiškis, northern Lithuania.
K. Šimonis was born on August 25, 1887 in Starkonys, near Kupiškis, northern Lithuania.
He studied organ, was also interested in history and ethnography. He painted and studied episodically: with Tadas Daugirdas (1908–1910), serving in the Russian Army in Kiev, where contact with a local painter (1911–1917 year), Saint St. Petersburg, Fedosejevo evening drawing courses (1917–1918), Chicago, 1926 Riga, 1927 Klaipėda and Paris, 1968, 1975 Vilnius.
In 1911, he returned to Lithuania, and was called up for military service in the Tsarist Russian army. Applied distinctively of its time prevailing artistic currents: cubism, expressionism, lučizmo expression. In the early creative period K. Simonis was affected by M. K. Čiurlionis influence, often using images.
Later, when he learned of the Western European art, he has made a significant impact on German Expressionist, Bauhaus School of art, especially Mark and Ferenc Lyonel Feiningerio stylized, falling in many different directions and beam lines to form fantastic images.
Living in France was influenced by primitivism art school. His mature creative period started in the 3rd decade and lasted until mid-4-completion.
During this period his growing tendency to divide things into space geometric segments. Geometrical shape pervaded the light flash, the image breaks down tiny crystals.
Great importance to its works, the artist offers to light.
After the War, his creativity started to sag. He returned to previous themes. His stylized fabulous pieces of content there sadness and memories.
During this period, he created a more realistic value of natural images.
He was criticized for imitation. Notable tracks: "leaf" (1923), "Towers" (1928), "Fantasy", "Thirst" (1926), "Forest Fire", "Princess", "Song", "Lights" (1926), "fog" (1927), "Fantasy Landscape" (1930), "suppository" (1931), "Living Stones" (1935), "Landscape with Crucifixion" "Girl with Flowers" (1936), "The Space" (1958), "morning, dawn" (1968).
Painted portraits: Ann Rymaitės actors, unes Babickaitė, Teofilija Vaičiūnienė, writers Vydūnas, Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas, Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius, Juozas Tysliava, Liudas Gira, Kazys Binkis, historian Simonas Daukantas, artist M. K. Čiurlionis and others