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Aušra

Dawn

 Dalia Matulaitė
2003

Šiauliai / Aušra   Šiauliai / Aušra

Description

Granite statue of a sitting woman. The sculpture symbolizes the Aušra (Dawn) Movement a political and literary group of Lithuanian intellectuals of the 1880s - 1890s. They used to publish a magazine called Aušra (1883-1886), and the organization was named after it.

Inscription(s)

AUŠRA

klausyki · saulės · spindulių · slaptos · mados, · tėvyne

įs priespaudos tamsos bundančiai
"aušrai" (1883) ir aušrininkams atminti

paminklo autoriai skulptorė dalia matulaitė, akmens kalejas vladas stankevičius
architektai jūras baikevičius rimantas buivydas 2003

paminklas pastatyta šiaulių miesto savivaldybės,
lr. kulturos ministerijos, lr. kulturos ir sporto remimo fondo lešoms
(list of sponsors)
DAWN
Hear · Sun · Light · Secret · Fashion · Homeland

Awakening from oppression and darkness
"Aušra" (1883) and the writers of Aušra memorial

Monument by sculptor Dalia Matulaitė, stone cutter Vladas Stankevičius
Architects Jūras Baikevičius and Rimantas Buivydas 2003 <.hr> Monument built by the Šiauliai City Government
Funded by the Lithuanian ministy of Culture, the Culture and Sport Fund
etc.

Signature

Monogram DM in circle.

Sculptor

Sources & Information

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Locatie (N 55°56'9" - E 23°18'45") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: lt193; Photograph: 15 July 2013
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