Jan Chełmiński
Jan Władysław Chełmiński , stage name Jan V. Chelminski , (born January 27, 1851 in Brbestów near Inowłódz , † 1925 in New York City ) was a Polish genre , hunting and war painter .
Life
Chełmiński is known as a painter of battles and wars, military history and portraits of Polish military figures. He first studied as a pupil of the Warsaw School of Drawing in Warsaw and with Juliusz Kossak , moved to Munich in 1874 and attended the Royal Art Academy on April 14, 1875 (register: 3144). Here he was a student of Alexander von Wagner , Alexander Strähuber , in 1875 with the history painter Józef Brandt and in 1876 with the battle and horse painter Franz Adam .
Act
As early as 1876, he participated in exhibitions in Munich, Berlin, Vienna, London and Paris with sales successes. His genre and hunting images met the taste of the upper classes. A painting “Departure for the Hunt”, 1877, was bought by the Duke of Koburg-Gotha, a “Parforce hunt from the 18th century”, 1879, by the King in Bavaria. From the 1890s onwards, he mainly designed battle or war pictures from the time of Napoleon I or Polish regimental pictures.
Chełmiński visited New York for the first time in 1884, then stayed in London, where he applied for citizenship in 1893, probably in a few other cities in the United Kingdom (1888–1899), then in Paris and St. Petersburg (1899), then from 1915 as a permanent residence until the end of his life in New York. The exact date of death is not given.
He was married twice: his first marriage to Marie Henschel (1858–?), Whom he had met in Munich and from whom he divorced. In his second marriage in 1893 he married the sister of the art dealer Roland Knoedler , Léonie (1859–1956), widow of Dr. Edward Karsch Henschel. Léonie and Roland were children of the well-known New York art dealer and gallery owner Michael Knoedler , in the gallery M Knoedler & Co . Chełmiński also exhibited.
Works (selection)
An oeuvre catalog is currently not known.
5th Infantry Regiment of the Duchy of Warsaw
11th Uhlan Regiment of the Duchy of Warsaw
7th Uhlan Regiment of the Duchy of Warsaw
8th Uhlan Regiment of the Duchy of Warsaw
Brigadier General and Colonel of the 17th Uhlan Regiment
8th Infantry Regiment of the Duchy of Warsaw
Portrait of Włodzimierz Rużycki de Rosenwerth.
Publications
- Jan V. Chelminski: L'armée du Duché de Varsovi. Texts par le commandant A. Malibran. J. Leroy et cie, Paris 1913. Edition: 1000 copies.
literature
- Tadeusz Szydłowski: Chełmiński, Jan . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 451 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Chelminsky, Jan van . In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists. Volume 3. Gründ, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-7000-3073-7 . Pp. 866-867.
- Feliks Kopera: Chełmiński Jan . In: Polski Słownik Biograficzny . tape 3 . Krakow 1937, p. 279 .
- Jadwiga Irena Daniec: In the footsteps of Jan Chelminski (Chełmiński), 1851-1925 . In: Polish review . tape 24 , no. 4 , 1979, ISSN 0032-2970 , pp. 59-91 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jan Chełmiński in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Thieme, Vol. 6, 1912, p. 451.
- ↑ The National Archives, Kew (accessed November 24, 2012).
- ↑ a b biography of Jan Chełmiński (Polish, accessed November 24, 2012).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chełmiński, Jan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chelminski, Jan van; Chełmiński, Jan; Chelminsky, Jan van; Chełmiński, Jan Władysław; Chelminski, Johann Wradislaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brzostów , Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1925 |
| Place of death | New York City |