Alfons Karpiński

Alfons Karpiński (born February 20, 1875 in Rozwadów near Tarnobrzeg , † June 6, 1961 in Kraków ) was a Polish painter.

Life

Karpiński was one of six children of a district judge. From 1885 he lived in Cracow; Here he was already receiving drawing lessons from Józef Bogacki at the age of 15. From 1891 to 1899 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts there under Florian Cynk , Izydor Jabłoński , Józef Unierzyski , Władysław Łuszczkiewicz and Leon Wyczółkowski . At the turn of the century he was also active in the Krakow cabaret "The Green Ballon", where he created satirical pieces with the painter Jozef Szajkowski and the poets Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński and Witold Nosowski.

In 1903 he moved to Munich , where he continued his studies at Anton Ažbe's private art school . From 1905 to 1907 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Kasimir Pochwalski and from 1908 to 1912 at the Académie Colarossi in Paris and in the studios of Henri Martin and Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa . During this time he visited Venice, Dresden, Budapest and London. In 1911 and again in 1920 he worked intermittently as a drawing teacher at advanced courses for women in Krakow.

During the First World War he served in the Austrian army and was slightly wounded. As a result he was until 1917 as Ldst.-Oberleutnant in the department for war graves at the K. u. K. Military command in Cracow. He created several paintings and watercolors for the use of fallen cemeteries and was a member of a selection group for cemetery concepts. After the war he married Władysława Chmielarczyków. In 1922 he returned to Paris to continue his studies at the academy. In 1926 he lived in Italy for a while. He later settled permanently in Krakow.

Karpiński was involved in the Vienna Secession from 1910 ; he was a member of the Polish artists' cooperative. In Cracow he was a member of Towarzystwo Artystów Polskich "Sztuka" . The first participation in an exhibition took place in 1899 with the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Krakow . In 1903 and 1905 similar organizations in Lemberg and Warsaw exhibited pictures of him at group exhibitions. In the 1930s his pictures were shown at the Warsaw Art Propaganda Institute. Solo exhibitions were given in Krakow (1911, 1926, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1949, 1958) and Lviv (1920, 1926, 1937). He was also represented at the Beaux-Art in Brussels in 1928 and at the International Exhibition in New York in 1939 .

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His symbolic compositions and genre scenes from Parisian life and the Krakow bohème , created until 1914, are Karpiński's better-known early works. His portraits of actresses and models in the Secession style also found recognition . He liked to paint with ornamental use of color and with sharp contours. After 1918 he created portraits in the style of salon painting , still lifes with flowers and, more rarely, Italian or French landscapes.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Richard Purschke: About the puppet show and its history: cross section from the literary work of the puppet show historian and theoretician Hans R. Purschke. ISBN 978-3-922220-12-1 , Puppen & Masken, 1983.
2. ↑ according to Rudolf Broch, The West Galician Heroes' Graves from the Years of World War 1914–1915 , K. uk military command, 1918, p. 16

Web links

• Selection of paintings
• Selection of paintings
• Barbara Sulowska, curriculum vitae on the occasion of an exhibition in the Art Museum in Legnica (in Polish)

literature

• Władysława Jaworska, Agnieszka Morawińska u. a., Malarstwo polskie w kolekcji Ewy i Wojciecha Fibakow (Polish painting in the Ewa and Wojtek Fibak Collection) , Auriga Verlag, ISBN 83-221-0623-8 , Warsaw 1992, p. 52f.

See also

• List of Polish painters