Antoni Teslar

Antoni Teslar (born May 26, 1898 in Krzeszowice near Kraków , † September 13, 1972 in Warsaw ) was a Polish painter who is known for his pictures of the rebuilt Warsaw after the Second World War .

Teslar studied from around 1917 to 1919 at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts . During this time he was a member of the Polish Legions . In 1921 the newspaper " Gazeta Grudziądzka " published a cycle of drawings by Teslar on cities from Pomerania ( Grudziądz , Brodnica , Chełmno and Toruń ). From 1921 to 1925 he was taught painting by Wojciech Weiss , Ignacy Pieńkowski and Stanisław Kamocki at the Cracow School of Art . He learned how to work ceramics from 1926 to 1929 at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris (where his older brother already lived) under Henri-Marcel Magne .

In 1930 he left France and moved to Morocco , where he lived until 1938. In 1939 he returned to Poland. He had painted landscapes, portraits and still lifes abroad, using a variety of painting techniques. He also worked as an enameller and jewelry designer; in 1928 he received a bronze medal and a silver medal in 1929 at the international arts and crafts exhibition in Paris. After the Second World War he joined the group of conservative painters, the "Grupa Zachęta" founded in 1956. Before the war he had exhibited in Poland and abroad several times. In 1961 he took part in an exhibition in the Warsaw National Museum , in 1962 in the “Festiwal Polskiego Malarstwa Współczesnego” (German: Festival of Contemporary Polish Painting ) and in 1963 in the exhibition “Warszawa w sztuce” (German: Warsaw in Art ). Solo exhibitions were dedicated to him in 1957 in the Warsaw Palace of Culture and in 1966 in the Copernicus Museum in Frombork . In his creative period after the war, Teslar mainly painted pictures of Warsaw's architecture. Works by him are in the possession of the Warsaw National Museum and the Polish National Bank ("Widok na odbudowywane Stare Miasto w Warszawie", German: View of the rebuilt old town of Warsaw from 1952).

He was buried in the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw. His brothers were Józef Andrzej Teslar , the painter Aleksander Teslar and the political publicist Tadeusz Teslar.

References and comments

1. ↑ The school was 1932 in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw on
2. ↑ For the group see article Ogólnopolska Grupa Artystów Plastyków "Zachęta" from the Express Wieczorny newspaper of December 27, 1956 (in Polish)
3. ↑ Józef Andrzej Teslar (1889 - 1961) was a Polish officer, doctor, poet, publicist and art critic

literature

• Tomasz Adam Pruszak: Malarstwo polskie ze zbiorow Narodowego Banku Polskiego ( Polish Paintings in the Collection of the National Bank of Poland ), NBP - National Bank Poland (ed.), Rosikon Press publishing house, ISBN 978-83-88848-69-8 , Warsaw 2009, pp. 43 and 84