Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski
Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski (* 1890 in Starosielce near Białystok , Russian Empire ; † 1948 in Konstancin-Jeziorna near Warsaw ) was a Polish painter, sculptor and university professor. He is known for his monumental and wall and ceiling paintings in Poland.
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From 1902 to 1908 he was trained in painting at the Art School in Odessa . He then studied painting from 1910 to 1918 at the Russian Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg under Dmitri Nikolajewitsch Kardowski and from 1918 to 1920 at the Art Academy in Munich . In 1920 he returned to Poland. At first he lived in Toruń . Here he ran the art studio "Sztuka" (German: art ) together with Leonard Pękalski .
From 1923 to 1929 he was a professor of the chair for decorative and monumental painting at the Cracow School of Art . In Krakow he became a member of the local artist groups “Rytm”, (German: Rhythmus ) “Pryzmat” (German: Prisma ) and “Jednoróg” (German: Unicorn ). From 1930 he took over the chair for easel painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw .
Kowarski's style was based on baroque and romantic art forms. Monumentalistic works, disciplined in their formal language, were characteristic of his works, which were created in connection with architectural motifs or in decorative painting. He received several large orders for interior decoration, such as in the Kraków Wawel Castle (ceiling painting, 1925–1929), in the Jasna Gora monastery (wall painting, 1928–1929) and in the Polish pavilion at the world exhibition “Exposition International des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne ”in Paris in 1937 (ceiling painting). In easel painting, landscapes and figure compositions determined his motifs. In his "Krakow period", Kowarski mainly painted landscapes from the area around Ojców , such as the pictures "Dolina Będkowska" (German: Będkowska valley ), "Krajobraz z Ojcowa" (German: landscape of Ojców ) and "O zachodzie" (German : At sunset ).
Kowarski exhibited in Krakow, Lviv and Warsaw as well as several times abroad (Vienna, Venice, Paris, Berlin). The national museums in Krakow , Poznan and Warsaw (painting “Proletariatczycy”) and the Polish National Bank bought his paintings. He received an award for his ceiling painting in Kraków Castle ( Hall under the Birds ).
One of his students was Zofia Matuszczyk-Cygańska . One student was Jan Betley .
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 Verlag, ISBN 978-83-88848-69-8 , Warsaw 2009, pp. 19 and 70
Web links
- Irena Kossowska, detailed biography of Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski at Culture.pl (in Polish)
- Painting by the artist
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dmitri Nikolajewitsch Kardowski (1866-1943) was a Russian painter and university teacher
- ^ Leonard Pękalski (1896–1944) was a Polish painter and draftsman
- ↑ according to an interview by Bogusław Deptuła with Zofia Matuszczyk-Cygańska, Painting, mathematics and whodunits at Galeriaart.pl
- ↑ Zofia Matuszczyk-Cygańska (* 1915 in Włocławek ) is a Polish painter
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kowarski, Felicjan Szczęsny |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish painter, sculptor and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Starosielce near Białystok |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1948 |
| Place of death | Konstancin-Jeziorna near Warsaw |