Interwar Architecture of Kaunas
Exhibition for the 25th Anniversary of the Restoration of Lithuania's Independence
The Embassy of Lithuania in Prague and the National Technical Library present an exhibition on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the restoration of Lithuania's independence. The exhibition will showcase photographs of modernist architectural gems from interwar Kaunas.
25 years of Independence Lithuania celebrates with an exhibition of interwar modern architecture. In March, the National Technical Library in Prague hosts an exhibition of the modernist architecture of Kaunas, which served as the temporary capital of the first Lithuanian Republic from 1920 to 1940. To commemorate the quarter-century since the restoration of Lithuanian independence, the exhibition will present a unique flowering of architecture in the Baltic region, influenced by the Bauhaus school and functionalism.
According to the authors of the exhibition from the Kaunas Architecture Festival, the city of Kaunas unexpectedly gained a significant place on the map of Europe during the dynamic changes at the beginning of the 20th century, taking the opportunity to become an important European city and a center of interwar architectural modernism. This style became its new hallmark, a new face. The city has retained to this day an indelible aura of a free city and a place with a rebellious spirit that has influenced the entire later epoch of Lithuanian new architecture.
"It is symbolic that on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of our Independence, we present in Prague a city that became a symbol of the first Lithuanian Republic, and the era of our state's return to the map of Europe. I am pleased that we open the exhibition precisely on the day of the Restoration of Lithuania's Independence, March 11," says Mindaugas Stanys, Chargé d’Affaires of the Lithuanian Embassy in Prague, which organizes the exhibition.
On March 11, 1990, the Lithuanian Supreme Council declared the restoration of the independence of the Lithuanian Republic and its statehood, building on the pre-war tradition of independence while establishing a modern free state.
The traveling exhibition Interwar Architecture of Kaunas, which can be viewed at the National Technical Library in Dejvice from March 12 to April 11, has been prepared by the Kaunas Architecture Festival, co-organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Prague and the National Technical Library Gallery in cooperation with the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague.
25 years of Independence Lithuania celebrates with an exhibition of interwar modern architecture. In March, the National Technical Library in Prague hosts an exhibition of the modernist architecture of Kaunas, which served as the temporary capital of the first Lithuanian Republic from 1920 to 1940. To commemorate the quarter-century since the restoration of Lithuanian independence, the exhibition will present a unique flowering of architecture in the Baltic region, influenced by the Bauhaus school and functionalism.
According to the authors of the exhibition from the Kaunas Architecture Festival, the city of Kaunas unexpectedly gained a significant place on the map of Europe during the dynamic changes at the beginning of the 20th century, taking the opportunity to become an important European city and a center of interwar architectural modernism. This style became its new hallmark, a new face. The city has retained to this day an indelible aura of a free city and a place with a rebellious spirit that has influenced the entire later epoch of Lithuanian new architecture.
"It is symbolic that on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of our Independence, we present in Prague a city that became a symbol of the first Lithuanian Republic, and the era of our state's return to the map of Europe. I am pleased that we open the exhibition precisely on the day of the Restoration of Lithuania's Independence, March 11," says Mindaugas Stanys, Chargé d’Affaires of the Lithuanian Embassy in Prague, which organizes the exhibition.
On March 11, 1990, the Lithuanian Supreme Council declared the restoration of the independence of the Lithuanian Republic and its statehood, building on the pre-war tradition of independence while establishing a modern free state.
The traveling exhibition Interwar Architecture of Kaunas, which can be viewed at the National Technical Library in Dejvice from March 12 to April 11, has been prepared by the Kaunas Architecture Festival, co-organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Prague and the National Technical Library Gallery in cooperation with the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague.
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