Kazimierz Dunin-Markiewicz

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Kazimierz Count Dunin-Markiewicz (* 15. March 1874 in Denichowka, Circle Taraschtscha , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire , now Denychiwka, Raion Tetiiw , Kiev Oblast , Ukraine ; † 2. December 1932 in Warsaw ) was a Polish portraits , genre and landscape painter , theater director and author of several plays .

Life

Dunin-Markiewicz came from the Polish landed gentry . The ancestor of the Dunin family is a certain Piotr Dunin, who lived under King Bolesław III. Wrymouth is said to have emigrated from Denmark to Poland in the 12th century . The Dunin-Markiewicz family originally came from Kujawy and later moved to Nowogrodzkie. They had possessions in Ukraine (Żywotówka, Jastrzębnice, Różyn). Kazimierz was married to Jadwiga Neyman († 1899) for the first time. From this marriage there was a son, Stanisław Dunin-Markiewicz (1896-?), Who is possibly shown in the painting as an eight-year-old boy.

K. Dunin-Markiewicz: Portrait of a young boy, Paris 1902

Dunin-Markiewicz first studied law at the university from 1892 and painting at the Polish Academy of Fine Arts in Kiev. From 1895 he moved to the art academy in Paris , where he devoted himself exclusively to the fine arts. There he met his second wife, the Irish freedom fighter Constance Markiewicz , born in 1899 . Goore-Booth, whom he married on September 29, 1900. From this marriage, their daughter Maeve Alys emerged. From 1902 they lived in Dublin.

Most of his pictures are in Dublin , a few can be seen in Poland ( Muzeum Narodowe in Krakow, private collection, etc.). His talent is particularly evident in the large oil portraits of the two Polish presidents Józef Piłsudski and Stanisław Wojciechowski . The name of Dunin-Markiewicz is mainly known to posterity through his second wife, Constance Markiewicz. Towards the end of his life, Dunin-Markiewicz worked for the American Consulate in Warsaw and as a correspondent for English magazines such as the London Daily News . A catalog of works on his literary as well as visual work is still pending.

Literary works

  • Plays:
    • Smutna Komedia (Kiev)
    • Memory of the Dead (Dublin 1909) [= Cześć poległym ]
    • Powrót z Seymour (original in English)
    • Dzikie pola (1913)
    • Lilije polne (1916/17)
  • Theater plays, together with Mieczyslaw Fijalkowski:
    • Sprawa honorova
    • Miłość czy pięść
  • Novels:
    • Przemoc Krwi (1928)
    • W objęciach Melpomeny [1931]

Artistic works

  • Dublin, Municipal Modern Art Gallery: Inwestytura Orderu (large picture with 68 portraits); Dziewczyna irlandska ;
  • London, Polish Embassy: Amour (1900);
  • Cracow, Muzeum Narodowe: Józef Piłsudski ; Stanisław Wojciechowski ;
  • Constance in White (1899); Bread (triptych)
  • Private ownership: several landscape paintings, including "The surf in Ireland"
  • Portrait of a boy, Paris 1902, oil on canvas, 19 × 15 inches
  • The mysterious forest and a woman's portrait were exhibited in Krakow

literature

  • Markiewicz, Kasimir Dunin (Count) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 117 .
  • Markiewicz, Kasimir Dunin . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 327 .
  • Swieykowski: Pamiętnik. 1905, p. 421; Polskie Museum. Kiev 1905, p. 101; The studio. 37, .1906, p. 351 f. (with ill.).
  • Stefan Krzywoszewski: Długie zycie. 1947.
  • Mieczysław Fijałkowski: Usmiechy lat minionych. Katowice 1962, pp. 260-269.
  • Arnold Szyfman: Labirynt teatru. Warsaw 1964, pp. 216-220.
  • Hanna Dangel-Dowling: Kazimierz Dunin-Markiewicz: (życie, twórczość, związki polsko-irlandzkie, wątek kutnowski) . In: Kutnowskie Zeszyty Regionalne . tape 17 , 2013, p. 123-162 (Polish).
  • Lauren Arrington: Revolutionary Lives. Constance and Casimir Markievicz . Princeton University Press, Princeton 2016, ISBN 978-1-4008-7418-7 (English, books.google.de - reading sample).

iconography

  • Numerous photographs of himself can be found in secondary literature as well as in books on Constance Markiewicz
  • Painting: Bolesles Szańkowski: à mon ami C. de M. (K. Dunin-Markiewicz in hussar uniform).

Web links

Commons : Kazimierz Dunin-Markiewicz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From Exhibitions and Collections - Krakow . In: Die Kunst (=  art for everyone . 17th year). tape 5 . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1902, p. 550 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Dunin-Markiewicz, Kazimierz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dunin-Markiewicz, Count Kazimierz; Markiewicz, Kazimierz Dunin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish painter, theater director and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Denichowka near Kiev
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1932
Place of death Warsaw