Jamontt Bronisław (ur. 1886 Dokudów near. Lidy, zm. 1957 Toruń).
Painter, pedagogue, founding member of the Vilnius Society of Artists and Designers. Jamontt's artistic studies were fragmentary, as a junior high school student he attended the Vilnius Drawing School in Trutniewo and Rybaków, and while studying law in St. Petersburg (started 1908) used evening drawing lessons, as a free student of the local Academy of Fine Arts. He gained his knowledge and painting culture primarily through independent research and experience. W 1909 he stayed in Kraków and Zakopane, where he met a group of students of J.. Stanisławski. He showed his works to the Vilnius audience for the first time in 1915, and from 1919 systematically participated in national art exhibitions, gaining a certain amount of publicity and recognition in the twenties (w 1924 received a gold medal for the Landscape with a Cascade). At the turn of the 1920s and 1930s, he traveled to France and Italy. W 1935 he took over the painting department at the University of Vilnius. He continued his pedagogical activity after the war in Toruń as a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University. Composed landscapes are characteristic of Jamontt's work, in which there are often branchy trees and a sky full of swirling clouds, and pictures, the theme of which is old architecture picturesque corners of Vilnius, and recently Toruń. The painting of this artist bears an indelible mark of the environment, in which it took shape; undoubtedly belongs to the Vilnius school, representing her romantic trend.
Painter, pedagogue, founding member of the Vilnius Society of Artists and Designers. Jamontt's artistic studies were fragmentary, as a junior high school student he attended the Vilnius Drawing School in Trutniewo and Rybaków, and while studying law in St. Petersburg (started 1908) used evening drawing lessons, as a free student of the local Academy of Fine Arts. He gained his knowledge and painting culture primarily through independent research and experience. W 1909 he stayed in Kraków and Zakopane, where he met a group of students of J.. Stanisławski. He showed his works to the Vilnius audience for the first time in 1915, and from 1919 systematically participated in national art exhibitions, gaining a certain amount of publicity and recognition in the twenties (w 1924 received a gold medal for the Landscape with a Cascade). At the turn of the 1920s and 1930s, he traveled to France and Italy. W 1935 he took over the painting department at the University of Vilnius. He continued his pedagogical activity after the war in Toruń as a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University. Composed landscapes are characteristic of Jamontt's work, in which there are often branchy trees and a sky full of swirling clouds, and pictures, the theme of which is old architecture picturesque corners of Vilnius, and recently Toruń. The painting of this artist bears an indelible mark of the environment, in which it took shape; undoubtedly belongs to the Vilnius school, representing her romantic trend.
Landscape with two red houses, 1929
gouache, cardboard, 48 x 63,5 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw;
gouache, cardboard, 48 x 63,5 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw;
