Olga Boznańska

Self-portrait (detail), 1893, National Museum Warsaw

Portrait of Paul Nauen , 1893, National Museum in Krakow

Girl with Chrysanthemums , 1894, National Museum in Krakow

Breton , 1890, National Museum in Krakow

On Good Friday , 1890, St. Mary's Church in Krakow

Portrait of two children on the stairs , 1898, National Museum in Poznan

Self-Portrait , 1900, National Museum in Krakow

Pisa Cathedral , 1905, National Museum in Krakow

Maternity , 1902

Two Girls , 1896, Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom

Olga Boznańska by Ludwik Puget, 1911 or 1912, Old Orangery in Łazienki Park

Olga Boznańska by Xawery Dunikowski , 1961, in the park of the Xawery Dunikowski Museum

Olga Boznańska from Paweł Cieśla on Celebrities Avenue in the center of Kielce

Olga Boznańska , even Olga of Boznańska (* 15. April 1865 in Krakow ; † 26. October 1940 in Paris ) was a Polish painter of the Post-Impressionism and representative of the cultural flow Young Poland .

life and work

Olga Helena Karolina Boznańska was born as the daughter of the Polish railway engineer Adam Nowina Boznański († 1906) and the French Eugénie Mondan († 1892) in Krakow , then Austria . Together with her sister Izabela (* 1868, † 1934) she received her first drawing lessons from her mother. In 1878 she was in Paris with her parents and sister and attended the world exhibition there . From 1883 to 1886, Olga studied with Józef Siedlecki and Kazimierz Pochwalski and attended advanced courses for women in the Technical-Industrial Museum in Cracow founded by Adrian Baraniecki by Hipolit Lipiński and Antoni Piotrowski among others.

In Munich she studied from 1886 to 1888 at Carl Kricheldorf's school and in 1888 shared a studio with Hedwig Weiss . She then studied with Wilhelm Dürr , but only until 1889, because he then became too ill. She was often to be found in the Alte Pinakothek because she copied old masters there in order to continue her education in this way. Also in 1889 she moved into her own studio.

Her third teacher was Paul Nauen , with whom a friendship developed. In 1893 she portrayed him in her studio and in the same year he portrayed her. In 1894 Olga Boznańska received the small gold (silver) state medal for the portrait of Paul Nauen at the International Art Exhibition in the Künstlerhaus Vienna . When the Bayerischer Kurier reported on the exhibition and criticized Paul Nauen, not the picture, and described him as a cripple of civilization , Nauen sued the editor in charge and won the process. Both paintings are now part of the collection of the National Museum in Krakow .

In addition to the German artists, Olga Boznańska's circle of artists also included Polish artists who were working in Munich at the time, such as Waclaw Szymanowski, Józef Brandt and Alfred von Wierusz-Kowalski , who were also her mentors . In 1895 she took over the management of Theodor Hummel's painting school in Munich. During her time in Munich she made many trips. She often traveled to Krakow. Other destinations were Berlin and Vienna , where she copied paintings by Diego Velázquez in the Kunsthistorisches Museum , which she admired. Paris was also her travel destination several times.

In 1898 she moved entirely to Paris and rented a studio at 9 rue Campagne Première in the Montparnasse district . In the same year she became a member of the Polish artists' association "Sztuka" . In 1901 she became a member of the French artists 'association Société nationale des beaux-arts , founded an artists' association with Leonia Bierkowska, of which they were both chairmen, and had a studio at 114 rue Campagne Première . Olga Boznańska also taught painting and taught at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière , the Académie Colarossi and the Académie Vitti . She was one of those women in art who started teaching at an early age.

Pupils

• Gertraud Rostosky (1876–1959)

Honourings and prices

• 1894: Small gold (silver) state medal for the portrait of Paul Nauen at the international art exhibition in the Künstlerhaus Vienna
• 1900: Bronze medal and Honorable Mention at the Exposition Universelle (World Exhibition in Paris)
• 1905: Medal II. Class in the IX. International art exhibition in the Glaspalast in Munich
• 1907: Bronze medal for Portrait of a Lady at Carnegie International in Pittsburgh
• 1912: Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor
• 1924: Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
• 1936: Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature
• 1938: Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1886: Exhibition of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Kraków (your first participation in the exhibition)
• 1888: III. International art exhibition in the Glaspalast in Munich - Oil painting: Study
• 1889: Annual exhibition of works of art from all nations in the Glaspalast in Munich - Oil painting: Lost Dreams - Later title: Thoughtful girl
• 1890: Second annual exhibition of works of art from all nations in the Glaspalast in Munich - oil painting: portrait of my mother and autumn flowers
• 1891: International art exhibition by the Association of Berlin Artists on the occasion of its 50th anniversary - watercolors and pastels: study
• 1892: VI. International art exhibition in the Glaspalast in Munich - Oil paintings: In the greenhouse and portrait
• 1892: III. International exhibition of watercolors, pastels, hand drawings and etchings , Dresden - Pastels: Angelica , Louise and Inseparable
• 1893: Great Berlin Art Exhibition - Oil Painting: Portrait and In the Greenhouse
• 1893: Annual exhibition of works of art from all nations in the Glaspalast in Munich - Oil painting: Self-portrait - Pastels: Träumerei , Gretchen and Studienkopf
• 1894: International art exhibition in Vienna, Künstlerhaus Vienna - Oil painting: Portrait of Paul Nauen
• 1894: Exhibition in the Künstlerhaus Vienna - pastel portrait , woman with child
• 1894: International art exhibition of the Munich Secession - oil paintings: portrait - watercolors, pastels, drawings, etc .: portrait of Miss Komonovsko (pastel), portrait of Hernn Sviatlovsky
• 1894: Great Berlin Art Exhibition - Painting: Study and Mother and Child
• 1895: Exhibition in the Künstlerhaus Vienna - pastel portrait study
• 1895: Spring exhibition of the Munich Secession - pastels
• 1895: Great Berlin Art Exhibition - Painting: Two portraits of women and a man's portrait
• 1895: International Art Exhibition of the Munich Secession - Oil Painting: Portrait
• 1896: Exposition nationale des beaux-arts of the Société nationale des beaux-arts in the Salon de Champ de Mars in Paris - oil painting: children (study)
• 1896: International Art Exhibition of the Munich Secession - Oil Painting: Portrait of a Man
• 1896: Paintings by female painters, exhibition at the Fritz Gurlitt art salon in Berlin
• 1897: Great Berlin Art Exhibition - Painting: Portrait of a woman and a man of men
• 1897: Exposition nationale des beaux-arts of the Société nationale des beaux-arts in Paris - Oil painting: Two children
• 1898: 16th art exhibition of the Association of Artists and Art Friends in Berlin - boys and girls with children
• 1898: Great Berlin Art Exhibition - Painting: Girl with Tulips
• 1898: International art exhibition of the Munich Secession - oil paintings: portrait, knee and poor people
• 1898: solo exhibition at the Galerie Georges Thomas in the Avenue Trudaine in Paris - 12 paintings
• 1899: Exhibition of paintings and prints together with printer and painter Daniel Mordant in the Georges Thomas Gallery in Paris
• 1899: Exposition nationale des beaux-arts of the Société nationale des beaux-arts in Paris - Oil paintings: family , portrait, portrait of the art dealer Georges Thomas
• 1899: Great Berlin Art Exhibition - Painting: French peasant woman
• 1899: International Art Exhibition of the Munich Secession - Portrait of a Man
• 1899: XXVI. Annual exhibition in the Künstlerhaus Wien - Oil paintings: Adagio and girl with tulips
• 1900: Great Berlin art exhibition - painting: Woman with two children and the child care worker
• 1900: International art exhibition of the Munich Secession - Angelina , knee pieces , Italians and heads
• 1900: Exposition Universelle (World Exhibition in Paris)
• 1901: Great Berlin Art Exhibition - Painting: Portrait of a woman
• 1901: Exposition nationale des beaux-arts of the Société nationale des beaux-arts in Paris - oil painting: family portrait , portrait of a young girl , Breton woman
• 1902: Exposition nationale des beaux-arts of the Société nationale des beaux-arts in Paris - Oil paintings: Male portrait , portrait of a blond man , young girl (study) , young man (study)
• 1902: XV. Exhibition of the Vienna Secession in the Vienna Secession building with the Polish artists' association "Sztuka" - girl with tomato
• 1902: Exhibition at the Schulte Gallery in Berlin
• 1902: Permanent exhibition of the Kunstverein in Hamburg , in the small gray hall of the permanent exhibition on Neuer Wall 14
• 1902: Kunstscheune (temporary space in the art gallery) in Kiel
• 1903: Exposition nationale des beaux-arts of the Société nationale des beaux-arts in Paris - Oil paintings: Nostalgia (young girl (study)) , portrait of Miss R. , portrait of Miss Jeanne Tournès , portrait of Miss K. , young girl (study)
• 1903: Seventh art exhibition of the Berlin Secession - Oil paintings: Two portraits
• 1904: International art exhibition in Düsseldorf in the Kunstpalast - oil painting: girl - later title: thoughtful girl
• 1904: Exposition nationale des beaux-arts of the Société nationale des beaux-arts in Paris - Oil painting: Male portrait (Herr von Raetvan) (portrait of the pianist August Radwan), portrait of the painter Samuel Hirszenberg , Italian girl , two sisters , portrait of a young lady
• 1905: Exposition nationale des beaux-arts of the Société nationale des beaux-arts in Paris - Oil paintings: Portrait Frau Richard , Portrait Fräulein K. , Portrait Herr von Radwan (Portrait of the pianist August Radwan), Portrait Frau L. , Portrait Frau Thomas , Interior - pastel: portrait
• 1905: Eleventh art exhibition of the Berlin Secession - oil painting: portrait of a woman
• 1905: IX. International art exhibition in the Glass Palace in Munich - oil and tempera paintings: Portrait of a Lady and Herrenbildnis
• 1906: XXVI. Exhibition of the Vienna Secession in the Vienna Secession building with the Polish artists' association “Sztuka” - two portraits of women and one of men
• 1906: Exposition nationale des beaux-arts of the Société nationale des beaux-arts in Paris - Oil paintings: Portrait Ms. R. , Portrait Ms. Roché ... , Portrait Mr. D. , Portrait Dr. Chadzynski , Portrait Mr. L. , Portrait Mrs. G. - Pastel: woman portrait
• 1906: First exhibition of the association of female artists in the Fritz Gurlitt art salon in Berlin
• 1907: Exposition nationale des beaux-arts of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris - Oil painting: Portrait of a Lady , Children , Portrait of a Lady in Black , Portrait of a Lady in Black , Portrait of a young girl - is the exhibition catalog and a black and white Illustration of a picture titled Children .
• 1907: Carnegie International in Pittsburgh - Portrait of a Lady
• 1908: Exhibition of the Polish artists 'association "Sztuka" in the Zedlitzhalle of the artists' association Hagenbund in Vienna - portraits
• 1908: Exposition nationale des beaux-arts of the Société nationale des beaux-arts in Paris - Oil paintings: Portrait of Ms. F. , Portrait of Miss Cheiley , Portrait of Miss de P. , Portrait of Ms. V. with her daughter , Portrait of Mr. L. , Portrait of Mr. de S. - In the exhibition catalog there is also a black and white picture of a portrait, portrait of Ms. T. , which is not listed in the catalog.
• 1909: 10th international art exhibition in the Glaspalast in Munich - oil and tempera paintings: portrait of a child and a portrait of a woman
• 1910: Twentieth art exhibition of the Berlin Secession - oil paintings and watercolors: mother with child
• 1910: XXXVII. Exhibition of the Vienna Secession - I. Exhibition of the Association of Austrian Women Artists - The Art of Women - Oil Painting: Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Miss Paparówny)
• 1910: IX. Biennale di Venezia - Portrait of the Woman in Brown , Portrait of Mr X , Two Children
• 1913: XI. International art exhibition in the Glaspalast in Munich - Oil painting: Portrait of Count Sigismund Puslowski
• 1914: XI. Venice Biennale
• 1916: Modern Painting at the Wilstach Gallery in Philadelphia
• 1929: Great Berlin Art Exhibition - Painting: Portrait of Frau Leg.-Rat I
• 1929: Carnegie International at the Art Institute of Chicago - portrait of Miss E. , portrait of Mrs Banciewicz , portrait of Professor Danysz , Spanish still life
• 1937: Exhibition of the Femmes Artistes Modernes (FAM) in the Pavillon des Exposition , Esplanade des Invalides in Paris - portrait
• 1937: World Exhibition Paris 1937 - Still Life (from 1934)
• 1938: XXI. Biennale di Venezia - Still life (from 1934)

Posthumously

• 1962–1963: Polish painting - from the end of the 19th century to the present in the Folkwang Museum , Essen
• 1980: A Strange Garden - 19th Century Polish Painting: Romanticism, Realism and Symbolism in the Lucerne Art Museum , Switzerland
• 2005: Boznańska Unknown - solo exhibition at the National Museum in Warsaw
• 2005–2006: Boznańska Unknown - solo exhibition at the National Museum in Cracow
• 2006–2007: Gardens - Order, Inspiration, Happiness in the Städel Museum , Frankfurt am Main
• 2014–2015: Olga Boznańska - solo exhibition in the National Museum in Cracow
• 2015: Olga Boznańska - solo exhibition at the National Museum in Warsaw

Illustrations

• 1897 An illustration in Jednodniówka Monachium 1897 (Eintageblatt München 1897), p. 9 - texts by Polish authors and illustrations by Polish artists living in Munich ( polona.pl digitized).

Listed works

A painting by Olga Boznańska is listed on lootedart.com :

• Still life , oil on cardboard, 64.8 × 50 cm, 1934, exhibited in 1937 and 1938

literature

• Boznanska, Olga de. In: Anton Hirsch: The visual artists of the modern age . Ferdinand Enke Verlag , Stuttgart 1905, pp. 163, 213, 222
• Konstanty Marian Górski: Boznańska, Olga . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 495 . ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
• Boznańska, Olga . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 291 .
• Boznanska, Olga. In: Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen eV (ed.): Käthe, Paula and all the rest : Künstlerinnenlexikon. Kupfergraben, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89181-411-9 , p. 28.
• Marta Koscielniak: Artists and Migration. Olga von Boznańska and Otolia Countess Kraszewska in the Munich des Fin de Siècle , Cologne: Böhlau 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51398-6 .

Web links

Commons : Olga Boznańska  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Still life by Olga Boznańska at lootedart.com (with picture)
• Olga Boznańska in the Google Art Project
• Olga Boznańska on artnet
• Olga Boznańska at AGRA ART
• Olga Boznańska at ARTCYCLOPEDIA
• Olga Boznańska at artist-info (exhibitions)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Full name ( memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Name and picture of the father painted by Olga ( memento from October 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Nowina coat of arms
4. ↑ Name mother
5. ^ Drawing lessons from my mother
6. ↑ Proof ( Memento from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Higher courses for women
7. ^ Higher courses for women Polish Wikipedia article
8. ^ Polish Wikipedia article by the museum
9. ↑ Studies from 1883 to 1886
10. ↑ Studies from 1886 to 1889.
11. ↑ Own studio 1889
12. ↑ Article ( Memento of October 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) about the process.
13. ^ Head of the painting school of Theodor Hummel In: Dictionary of Women Artists. (English).
14. ↑ Year of takeover (English).
15. ^ Mention of the female artists' association in Die Kunst für alle from 1901, p. 436.
16. ^ Entry by the female artists' association in the yearbook of fine arts from 1903, p. 267.
17. ↑ Proof of quote: 6.4.1894 / 26.5.1894 Boznanska von, Olga, (golden), for “portrait” (Paul Nauen), oil, cat. No. XVIII / 18 of the international art exhibition
18. ↑ List of medals In: Catalog of the 26th annual exhibition. Society of Visual Artists Vienna 1889, p. 6 and 7 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
19. ↑ p. 192 in the yearbook of fine arts from 1903.
20. ^ Exhibition catalog of the Xth exhibition, list of medalists .
21. ↑ 'La grande Boznańska': connue, méconnue, redécouverte?
22. ↑ Proof of officer's cross.
23. ↑ p. 2 , left column in the PDF.
24. ↑ exhibition catalog .
25. ↑ exhibition catalog .
26. ^ Evidence ( Memento from March 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Thoughtful girl
27. ↑ exhibition catalog .
28. ^ Exhibition catalog, p. 211 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
29. ↑ exhibition catalog .
30. ^ Exhibition catalog , Dresden 1892.
31. ↑ p. 21 in the exhibition catalog.
32. ↑ exhibition catalog .
33. ↑ Exhibition catalog , p. 66
34. ↑ p. 13 in the exhibition catalog (the picture is not listed in edition V. Edition V ).
35. ↑ p. 33 in the exhibition catalog.
36. ↑ p. 11 in the exhibition catalog.
37. ↑ Exhibition catalog , p. 26
38. ↑ Mention ( memento of October 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in the article section about the exhibition under the picture.
39. ↑ p. 26 in the exhibition catalog.
40. ↑ p. 142 in the exhibition catalog.
41. ↑ p. 12 in the exhibition catalog.
42. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. 15 in the exhibition catalog.
43. ↑ p. 8 in the exhibition catalog.
44. ↑ Mention ( memento of October 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in the article about the exhibition.
45. ↑ p. 41 in the exhibition catalog.
46. ^ Exhibition catalog, p. VIII Textarchiv - Internet Archive .
47. ↑ page 7 in the exhibition catalog.
48. ↑ p. 6 in the exhibition catalog.
49. ↑ page 12 in the exhibition catalog.
50. ↑ Proof ( Memento from January 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Solo exhibition 1889
51. ↑ Textarchiv - Internet Archive p. 52 in Chronique des Arts , February 4, 1899.
52. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. VIII in the exhibition catalog.
53. ↑ p. 22 in the exhibition catalog.
54. ↑ p. 14 in the exhibition catalog.
55. ↑ Textarchiv - Internet Archive p. 37 in the exhibition catalog.
56. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. 40 in the exhibition catalog.
57. ↑ p. 21 in the exhibition catalog.
58. ↑ p. 14 in the exhibition catalog.
59. ^ Illustration by Italians
60. ↑ Textarchiv - Internet Archive Mentioned on p. 49 in Chefs-d'Œuvre of the Exposition Universelle 1900 .
61. ↑ p. 21 in the exhibition catalog.
62. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive P. VII in the exhibition catalog.
63. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. VIII in the exhibition catalog.
64. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. VIII in the exhibition catalog.
65. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. 29 in the exhibition catalog.
66. ↑ Mention on p. 260 in Die Kunst für alle from 1902.
67. ↑ Exhibition 1902 in: Annual report of the art association in Hamburg for 1902 . P. 12 (PDF-p. 55). PDF file from kunstverein.de
68. ↑ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : Kiel artist - Volume 2: Art life in the imperial era 1871-1918. Special publications of the Society for Kiel City History edited by Jürgen Jensen, Volume 81, Boyens, Heide 2016, ISBN 978-3-8042-1442-2 , p. 82
69. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. VIII in the exhibition catalog.
70. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. 18 in the exhibition catalog.
71. ↑ Illustration of a page of the exhibition catalog
72. ↑ Proof ( memento from January 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) and exhibition photo of the painting Thoughtful Girl
73. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. VIII in the exhibition catalog.
74. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. VIII in the exhibition catalog.
75. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. XXI in the exhibition catalog.
76. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. 16 in the exhibition catalog.
77. ↑ exhibition catalog .
78. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. 21 in the exhibition catalog.
79. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. 23 in the exhibition catalog.
80. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. VIII in the exhibition catalog.
81. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. XXXII in the exhibition catalog.
82. ↑ Textarchiv - Internet Archive Mention on p. 284 in Die Kunst von 1906.
83. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive P. VII in the exhibition catalog.
84. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. 180 in the exhibition catalog.
85. ↑ Textarchiv - Internet Archive Mentioned in the article about the exhibition on p. 294 in Die Kunst von 1908.
86. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive P. VII in the exhibition catalog.
87. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. VIII in the exhibition catalog.
88. ↑ Textarchiv - Internet Archive p. 179 in the exhibition catalog.
89. ↑ exhibition catalog .
90. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. 17 in the exhibition catalog.
91. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. 41 in the exhibition catalog.
92. ↑ Textarchiv - Internet Archive Black and white illustration of the female portrait on p. 87 in the exhibition catalog.
93. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive p. 85 in the exhibition catalog.
94. ↑ exhibition catalog .
95. ↑ Evidence XI. Biennial
96. ^ Textarchiv - Internet Archive Mentioned in International Studio from 1916 on p. CVIII, right column.
97. ^ Exhibition catalog , Berlin 1929
98. ↑ Catalog pp. 34 and 37 (PDF).
99. ↑ p. 8 in the exhibition catalog.
100. ↑ Proof of still life , 1937 a. 1938.