Józef Szermentowski

"In the Park" (Polish: W parku ), 1873, oil on canvas, holdings: National Museum in Breslau

"The peasant funeral " (Polish "Pogrzeb chłopski" ), 1862, oil on canvas, inventory: National Museum Warsaw

Józef Szermentowski (born 4 ^{. Jul} / 16th February  1833 ^greg. In Bodzentyn , † 6. September 1876 in Paris ) was a Polish landscape painter .

Life

From 1849 to 1853 Szermentowski lived in the house of the art collector and patron Tomasz Zieliński in Kielce ; At times he was taught painting by Franciszek Kostrzewski . From 1853 to 1857 he then studied in Warsaw at the Academy of Fine Arts under Christian Breslauer and Juliusz Kossak ; from 1858 Wojciech Gerson was his private tutor.

In 1860 he moved to Paris on a scholarship , where he settled. He returned to Poland only twice on trips; In 1866 he visited Kielce and in 1888 Cracow and the Tatras . In 1869 he traveled to the Pyrenees . From 1865 to 1876 he exhibited at the Paris salons and also showed his pictures internationally - for example in Vienna, in London (where he won a silver medal in 1871) and in Poland. He was a friend of Cyprian Kamil Norwid and was buried in the Les Champeaux cemetery in Montmorency . One grandson was Eugeniusz Szermentowski, a Polish journalist and writer.

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Szermentowski painted in oils and watercolors , mainly landscape and genre paintings. He mainly chose Polish motifs. His early works are dominated by the realism that developed at the Academy in Warsaw. During his time in Paris he made contact with followers of the Barbizon School ; painterly and formal means now came more to the fore. He dedicated himself particularly to the effects of light and shadow. He was one of the first Polish landscape painters who endeavored to reproduce light effects correctly (see the adjacent painting “In the Park”).

literature

• Jens Christian Jensen (Ed.), Polish Painting from 1830 to 1914, catalog for the exhibition from June 24 to August 20, 1978 in the Kunsthalle zu Kiel , DuMont, Cologne 1978, p. 261 ff.

Web links

Commons : Józef Szermentowski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Detailed curriculum vitae at Culture.pl (accessed on September 5, 2012, in Polish)