Ingrida Korsakaitė, the famous art historian, Jurga Ivanauskaitė’s mother, was buried in the Antakalnis cemetery in Vilnius.

by times news cr

2024-07-23 21:47:10

A few days ago, her daughter, ethnologist Radvilė Racėnaitė, announced the death of Ingrida Korsakaitė on the social network.

I. Korsakaitė was awarded the Order of Grand Duke Gediminas V of Lithuania (1997), the Martynas Mažvydas prize of the Ministry of Culture “For services to the Lithuanian state language, history of writing and the art of books” (2001), Lauryns Ivinskis prize of the 15th republican calendar competition (2004). in 2018 she was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor of the Vilnius Academy of Arts.

I. Korskaitė was born in 1938. October 31 In the stock exchanges. in 1956 graduated from Vilnius S. Nėries Gymnasium, 1961 – St. Petersburg Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, studied art history and theory, acquiring the specialty of art historian.

“In Lithuania at that time, no higher education school trained such specialists, so she became one of the first researchers to outline the directions of art research in that period. in 1970 defended her doctoral thesis in art studies, on the basis of which she published the monograph “Living Graphic Tradition” (1970), which has not lost its relevance to this day,” writes her daughter R. Racėnaitė.

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