Jan Bolesław Czedekowski

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Jan Bolesław Czedekowski (born February 22, 1885 in Wojnyliw , † July 8, 1969 in Vienna ) was a Polish - Austrian portrait , genre and war painter .

Life

Czedekowski came to Vienna in 1903, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts with Rudolf Bacher . In addition, he was a student of Christian Griepenkerl's general painting school and Kasimir Pochwalski's master class . Early awards were the so-called Königswarther Prize in 1906 and the Special Prize for Portrait Painting in 1911.

During the First World War he was initially a medical soldier and then submitted an application for admission as a war painter to the Austro-Hungarian War Press Office , which was granted on December 19, 1916. In 1917, Czedekowski exhibited numerous portraits of various military leaders as part of a large exhibition of war paintings . The portraits of Princess Fanny Schwarzenberg , Princess Paar , Countesses Mensdorff-Pouilly and the industrialist Richard von Schoeller were created around the same time . Until the end of the war, Czedekowski remained in the war press headquarters, after which he moved to the United States for lack of portraits and went to Paris three years later . His works were exhibited in 1924, 1928 and 1932 in the local branch of the Knoedler Gallery. In 1925 he was commissioned to paint a life-size portrait of Marshal Foch for the Polish embassy in Paris . Another important portrait is that of the Polish President Ignacy Mościcki . In 1937/38 Czedekowski stayed again in the United States. In 1941 he showed a portrait of a man at the spring exhibition of the Vienna Künstlerhaus , and the following year, among other things, a portrait of the actress Hermine Kray. In 1955 he taught the Advanced Art Class at the University of Houston .

Today his works are exhibited in various museums, including the Museum of the John Paul II Collection , the Łańcut Castle and the Museum of Military History .

Works (excerpt)

  • Portrait of Emperor Karl I in field marshal's gala uniform , 1917, oil on canvas, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna

literature

  • Heinrich Fuchs, The Austrian painters born 1881–1900, Vienna 1976, Volume 1, p. K 39 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Reichel: "Press work is propaganda work" - media administration 1914–1918: The War Press Quarter (KPQ) . Communications from the Austrian State Archives (MÖStA), special volume 13, Studienverlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7065-5582-1 , p. 179.
  2. ↑ wladimir-aichelburg.at , accessed on August 9, 2014
  3. ^ Heinrich Fuchs, The Austrian Painters of the 19th Century, Vienna 1974, Volume 4
personal data
SURNAME Czedekowski, Jan Bolesław
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian portrait and war painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Voynyliv
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1969
Place of death Vienna