Jeremi Kubicki

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With the picture Cykliści Kubicki took part in the art competition of the Olympic Games in Berlin .
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Jeremi Kubicki (born April 6, 1911 in Łódź , Russian Empire , † December 5, 1938 in Warsaw ) was a Polish painter .

biography

Jeremi Kubicki was a son of Jan Kubicki and Antonia, nee Flisów. His father moved with the family to Warsaw in 1911, where he worked as a commission agent in the Hotel Europejski . In Warsaw, Jeremi Kubicki attended the Stanislaus Kostka Grammar School for six years . He then studied painting at the Institute of Fine Arts with Stanisław Rzecki and Wacław Borowski and from 1929 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with Tadeusz Pruszkowski and Leonard Pękalski .

In 1932 and 1936 Kubicki took part in the art competitions of the Olympic Games, but without winning an award. From 1935 he was a member of the artist group Bractwo św. Łukasza (Brotherhood of Saint Luke) . Following the example of a medieval guild with rules, admission rites and general assembly as well as a "master" (Tadeusz Pruszkowski), the painters were inspired by Dutch painting and created paintings with religious, genre and historical motifs as national art. Kubicki also pursued his own style: In fine, precise lines and delicate tones, he painted an unreal world with “ethereal female figures, marching soldiers and landscapes”.

Brotherhood painters , including Kubicki, created the interior decoration of the Polish pavilion at the Paris World Exhibition in 1937 . His largest painting from this pavilion was later installed in the restaurant on Gubałówka Mountain above Zakopane. Together with Antoni Michalak and Edward Manteuffel, he painted ornaments for E. Wedel's famous chocolate shop that no longer exist.

The guild's painters were also responsible for the painted decorations of the Polish passenger ships MS Piłsudski and MS Batory . On the Piłsudski , he furnished the “ladies' bar” with five paintings, the focus of which was women. He was also one of the artists who created paintings on Polish history for the Polish pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair in New York on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Second Polish Republic . The works were transported to New York on the Piłsudski . The ship drove on its return from the USA on sea ​​mines and sank on November 26, 1939 off the English coast near Yorkshire . The paintings in the pavilion were purchased by the Polish Museum of America in Chicago and are on display at Le Moyne College in Syracuse , New York.

In 1934 Kubicki married the painter and sports pilot Anna Henneberg (1907–1936). She died of tuberculosis two years after the marriage .

Kubicki committed suicide by shooting himself in the head on December 5, 1938, at the age of 27 . Most of his work was lost during World War II . His painting Cykliści , with which he took part in the art competitions of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin , is in the National Museum in Warsaw .

literature

  • Christine Rohrschneider: Kubicki, Jeremi . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 82, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023187-8 , p. 141.
  • Andrzej K. Olszewski: Polish Art and Architecture 1890–1908 . Interpress, Warsaw 1989, ISBN 83-223-2273-9 (English).

Web links

Commons : Jeremi Kubicki  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ignacy Trybowski: Kubicki, Jeremi. In: Polski słownik biograficzny. Volume 16.Polska Akademja Umietętności, Cracow 1971, p. 19.
  2. ↑ Kubicki Jeremi. In: Blisko Polski. Retrieved August 22, 2019 (Polish).
  3. ^ Brotherhood of St. Luke (Bractwa Swietego Lukasza). In: Falcone Library. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Olszewski, Polish Art and Architecture 1890–1908 , p. 63.
  5. ↑ Olszewski, Polish Art and Architecture 1890–1908 , p. 65.
  6. ↑ Grzegorz Rogowski: Piłsudski i Batory - bliźniacze transatlantyki były dumą Polski na morzach świata. In: weekend.gazeta.pl. May 23, 2015, accessed August 23, 2019 (Polish).
  7. ↑ Bogdan Horbal: A Monument to a King and a Nation. In: exhibitions.nypl.org. Retrieved on August 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kubicki, Jeremi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Łódź
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1938
Place of death Warsaw