Stanisław Masłowski

Stanisław Masłowski, 1925

The painting “Spring of the Year 1905” (Polish: Wiosna roku 1905 ) from 1906 shows a Cossack patrol on the Warsaw Aleje Ujazdowskie , part of the Warsaw National Museum

“Moonrise”, (Polish: Wschód Księżyca ), 1884 , oil on canvas, holdings of the Warsaw National Museum

"Jaremas Dumka" (Polish: Duma Jaremy ), 1879, oil on canvas, holdings of the Warsaw National Museum. The picture shows a young Cossack singing a dumka to his loved one

Stanisław Stefan Zygmunt Masłowski (born December 3, 1853 in Włodawa , † May 31, 1926 in Warsaw ) was a Polish painter of realism . He mainly painted landscapes and genre pictures .

Life

Masłowski came from an impoverished aristocratic family originally from Wieluń . He was the son of the lawyer and civil servant Rajmund Masłowski and the Waleria Józefa, nee. Danilewicz. His brother was the chemist Bolesław Masłowski. From 1865 Masłowski lived in Kalisz ; here he attended high school, where the painter Stanisław Barcikowski was his teacher.

From 1871 to 1875 he studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under Wojciech Gerson and Aleksander Kamiński . In 1875 he received a silver medal from the Imperial Art Academy in St. Petersburg for his drawings. In the 1870s he was a member of an artist community (including Józef Marian Chełmoński , Stanisław Witkiewicz and Antoni Piotrowski ) that had a studio in the Warsaw Hotel Europejski .

Until 1886 he made several trips to the Ukraine, which impressed him artistically. The writer Edward Chłopicki accompanied him on his first trip (1875) . From 1884 to 1887 he was associated with an artist group that had formed around the magazine "Wędrowiec". These included Aleksander Gierymski , Antoni Sygietyński , Józef Pankiewicz and Władysław Podkowiński .

In 1886 Masłowski spent several months in Munich. Later trips took him to Italy (1900, 1904, 1910, 1912–1914, 1922), Paris (1900, 1910, 1913), Vilnius (1904) and Tunis (1912). In 1897 he became a member of the Cracow artists' association "Sztuka" . Masłowski exhibited at many international exhibitions, for example in Chicago, Berlin, Vienna (at exhibitions of the Vienna Secession ) and Paris. At the Exposition Universelle 1900 in Paris he received an award for the painting “The Market by Kazimierz Dolny ”. Also in 1913 he had a solo exhibition in Paris.

Masłowski turned down the offer made in 1914 to take on a chair at the Warsaw Academy. The Warsaw Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts organized a large solo exhibition for him in the Galeria Zachęta in 1916 . In 1921 he was appointed a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1925 Masłowski was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order Polonia Restituta . He died in 1926 and was buried in the Powązki cemetery .

On February 20, 1897, he married Aniela Ponikowska, sister of the lawyer Cezary Ponikowski . They had a son, the art historian Maciej Masłowski.

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At the center of his painting were the native landscapes ( Mazovia ) and genres of Poland. His pictures show the typically Polish, sentimental tone of the time. In later works he also used elements from Impressionism to Modernism. Lighting effects were particularly important to him here. Masłowski painted in oils and watercolors. The largest collection of his works is in the National Museum in Warsaw .

literature

• Jens Christian Jensen (Ed.), Polish Painting from 1830 to 1914, catalog for the exhibition from June 24 to August 20, 1978 in the Kunsthalle zu Kiel , DuMont, Cologne 1978, p. 230 f.

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