From Fiords to the Alpine Peaks: European Landscapes from Mykolas Žilinskas (1904–1992) Collection

The exhibition commemorates the famous Lithuanian art collector and donator Mykolas Žilinskas‘ 110^thbirth anniversary. Visitors will see the most impressive and engaging European landscape paintings collected by an emigrant to West Berlin M. Žilinskas. This is only a small group of paintings from the large collection donated to Lithuania.

In 1967–1974, the dreary Soviet years, the museum received the first group of art works, and that equaled to the desired Western whiff and became a conventional step towards Europe offering the opportunity to admire those wonderful views which were out of reach for many living behind the „iron curtain“. Now that we have become an equal member of the European Union the past has dropped out of memory for a majority of us.

35 years have passed since the opening of the Kaunas Picture Gallery specially built for the display of the donated collection and 25 years ago was opened the present art gallery named after Mykolas Žilinskas. A great many of the donated art works have been under research, safely stored. Today, over 80 European landscape paintings created in the 18^th  - 20^th centuries are shown to the public. Almost half of them are displayed for the first time.

The exhibition presents a broad panorama of the European landscape from the sunny borders on the Mediterranean to Scandinavian fiords imparting cool Northern breath, from rocky Atlantic coasts to the Sudeten mountains and the highest Alpine peaks. So, you are welcome to travel along wonderful Europe, to enjoy its stunning mountain panoramas, shores and coasts washed by seas and oceans, to feel romantic sunsets and mistic moonlights, to walk along cosy streets in Venice, Rome, Naples, Paris, Berlin and other charming European cities.

We offer to you a nice opportunity to visit a lot of countries without a far-off departure and to get acquainted with a part of the donated collection.