Rūta Jokubonienė

Rūta Birutė Jokubonienė (14 January 1930 – 14 May 2010) was a Lithuanian textile artist.

Biography

In 1954,ūtaJokubonienė 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. 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.

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 painters

"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

21st-century textile artists