Jerzy Kazimierz Wolff

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Jerzy Kazimierz Wolff (born March 4, 1902 in Pokrzywnica , † 1985 in Laski near Warsaw ) was a Polish painter, art historian and critic, publicist and Catholic priest.

Life

Jerzy Wolff's grandfather was August Robert Wolff , the co-founder of the well-known Polish publishing house Gebethner i Wolff . He spent his childhood in the Sandomierz area . Wolff passed his Abitur in Warsaw. He studied from 1920 to 1926 at the Art Academy in Kraków under Ignacy Pieńkowski , Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski and Jan Wojnarski . After completing his studies in Krakow, he became a member of the Paris Committee . From 1929 to 1933 he lived in Paris, where he followed Józef Pankiewicz and his painting school. He was fascinated by the French museums, the style and the culture of France. From 1936 Wolff lived in Warsaw. Before the Second World War he was a member of the "Zwornik" group. After the war he was active in the Association of Polish Visual Artists ZPAP , from 1946 to 1948 as Vice President. Wolff stopped painting between 1948 and 1958, as he was ordained a priest in 1952 . In 1958 he moved to an institution for the blind in Laski, where he started painting again.

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Wolff painted landscapes, still lifes and religious pictures. The artist was also an art critic. His articles have been published in art magazines and he has written books about the painters Aleksander Gierymski and Zygmunt Waliszewski . He exhibited his works several times; for example at an exhibition in the Warsaw National Museum in 1961, at the Festival of Contemporary Art in Szczecin in 1960 and in Galeria Zachęta in 1965. His pictures were shown abroad in Nice and in 1932 in Paris, in West Berlin, Vienna and in 1974 in Copenhagen shown. He received the Cyprian Kamil Norwid Art Critics Award 1974 and an award from the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation in New York in 1979. A posthumous exhibition with pictures from the Warsaw National Museum was dedicated to him in 2007 in Izabelin near Warsaw. In addition to the National Museum in Warsaw, the National Museums in Wroclaw , Krakow and Poznan , the Polish Museum of America in Chicago and the Vatican Museums also own his paintings.

Others

On September 30, 2010, the 30-minute documentary “Strefa sztuki - Pejzaże polskie Jerzego Wolffa” about the life of the painter, shot by Henryk Urbanek in 1995 , was broadcast on the Polish state television broadcaster TVP Kultura .

literature

  • A. Ryszkiewicz: Wolff, Jerzy . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 162 .
  • 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. 39 and 81f.

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c according to Information about the film Strefa sztuki - Pejzaże polskie Jerzego Wolffa on the website of the Polish state television TVP (in Polish)
  2. ^ Catalog: Exposition oeuvres de Georges Wolff. Galerie Art et Artistes Polonais, 23 May - 7 June 1932, Paris 1932.
  3. ↑ according to Website Tv.pl .
  4. ↑ Pejzaże polskie Jerzego Wolffa in filmpolski.pl (Polish, accessed April 21, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Jerzy Kazimierz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolff, Jerzy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Pokrzywnica
DATE OF DEATH 1985
Place of death Laski