Towarzystwo Artystów Polskich "Sztuka"

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The Towarzystwo Artystów Polskich "Sztuka" ( Association of Polish Artists "Sztuka" ) was an artists' association in Krakow that existed from 1897 to 1950. It included prominent contemporary artists who were closely associated with the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts . The company held more than 100 exhibitions.

history

In the early summer of 1897 an exhibition of paintings and sculptures was held in the Krakow Cloth Hall , which gave the impetus for the establishment of the association on May 27, 1897 - based on the model of the German Secession Societies . For some time now, Polish artists have been dissatisfied with the conservative exhibition policy of the Cracow Society of Friends of the Fine Arts, founded in 1854, and the Warsaw Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych, which was founded in 1860 . The foundation also followed the emergence of comparable exhibition organizations in Europe such as the Paris Société nationale des beaux-arts , the Künstlerhaus Wien and the Munich and Berlin artists' associations, where the artists themselves decided on works to be exhibited.

The aim of the society dominated by painters was to raise the level of modern Polish art. Art exhibitions at home and abroad, a worldwide representation of the various Polish art forms and an expert selection of above-average works of art should take place to enforce this. Within a few years the association became the main organization for evaluating Polish art. He was recognized and supported by both the Austrian government and the local Polish administration.

The association organized 101 exhibitions in Poland and abroad. In Krakow there was an annual exhibition in April or May; abroad, works were shown mainly in the USA and Great Britain. The first international exhibition, however, took place in Vienna in 1902 - at the invitation of the Vienna Secession . The company's last exhibition took place in 1950 in Warsaw. The founding members included important Polish artists and university teachers of the 19th century. Jan Stanisławski was the first chairman. After him Józef Chełmoński took over this office.

Association members (selection)

Founding members

Other members

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to Agnieszka Morawińska, Polish Painting from the Gothic to the Present , Wolfgang Jöhling (transl.), ISBN 83-221-0248-8 , Auriga, Warsaw 1984, p. 39
  2. ↑ a b c Anna Brzyski; Partisan canons , Duke University Press, Durham 2007, p. 257, ISBN 978-0-8223-4085-0 (in English)
  3. ↑ a b c Marek Bartelik: Early Polish Modern Art , Manchester University Press, Manchester 2005, p. 20, ISBN 0-7190-6352-3 (in English)