Władysław Ślewiński

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Self-portrait with a Breton hat from 1912

Władysław Ślewiński (born June 1, 1856 in Białynin near Mikołajów , † March 24 or March 27, 1918 in Paris ) was a Polish painter and founding member of the Młoda Polska movement .

Life

Ślewiński came from a wealthy Polish landowning family and attended school in Radom . While studying agriculture, he also briefly attended Wojciech Gerson's drawing school in Warsaw . Later he managed the maternal family estate Pilaszkowice near Lublin . Because of disputes with the Russian financial authorities and threatened expropriation, he fled to Paris in 1888. There he lived with the painter Zygmunt Andrychiewicz , who was to become his first mentor. Ślewiński studied at the Académie Colarossi , where he met Paul Gauguin . The painter and his works of art made a deep impression on Ślewiński, as a result of which he decided to become an artist himself. He joined Gauguin, after a time together in Paris he followed him in 1889 to Pont-Aven and Le Pouldu in Brittany . During this time, seascapes were created (especially with the Breton cliffs). In 1891 Gauguin painted a portrait of Ślewiński and gave it to him.

Ślewiński exhibited in Paris in 1895 and 1896 at the Salon des Indépendants and in 1897 and 1898 in the Georges Thomas Gallery . In 1898 he traveled to Spain. On a return trip from Poland to France in 1907 he stopped in Munich for a few months with his Russian wife Eugenia Szewcow . There he came into contact with the painters Jan Verkade , Marianne von Werefkin and Alexej Jawlensky during Easter 1908 . He influenced the latter significantly in painting. From 1905 to 1910 he stayed in Krakow , Poronin , Lemberg and Warsaw. In 1908 he was appointed professor at the Warsaw Art Academy . A short time later he resigned to open his own painting school on Polna Street in Warsaw. In 1910 he returned to France.

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The basis of Ślewiński's work was the aesthetic of synthetism developed by Gauguin and the Pont-Aven school . He painted symbolic landscapes that were freed from narrative elements. He used synthetic lines and ornamental, flat brushstrokes in his pictures, especially in intimate still lifes and depictions of flowers. His portraits and related studies show closeness to the views of the artist group Nabis . More important to Ślewiński than the use of synthetic elements seems to have been the search for and representation of the simplicity of such landscapes, which were largely untouched by modern life. The color basis of his works were earth tones.

His pictures are in many public collections, such as the National Museums in Krakow and Warsaw .

In 2008, for the first time in 100 years, pictures of him were shown again in the Murnau Castle Museum .

literature

  • Władysława Jaworska, Agnieszka Morawińska u. a .: Malarstwo polskie w kolekcji Ewy i Wojciecha Fibaków ( Polish painting in the Ewa and Wojtek Fibak Collection ), Auriga Verlag, ISBN 83-221-0623-8 , Warsaw 1992, p. 32 f.
  • Władysława Jaworska u. a .: "Władysław Ślewiński" ISBN 83-03-03308-5 , Warsaw 1991, KRAJOWA AGENCJA WYDAWNICZA, WYD.1, p. 8 and 134 (photocopy act)

Web links

Commons : Władysław Ślewiński  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Pictures in the Galeria Malarstwa Polskiego at Pinakoteka.zascianek.pl
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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b according to Irena Kossowska, detailed biography on Culture.pl, Art Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences , April 2003 (in Polish and French)
  2. ↑ Wladislawa Jaworska, Paul Gauguin et l'école de Pont-Aven, Neuchâtel 1971, p. 119
  3. ↑ Willibrord Verkade, The Drive to Perfection, Memories of a Painter Monk, Freiburg 1931, p. 172
  4. ↑ Bernd Fäthke, Marianne Werefkin, Munich 2001, p. 114 f
  5. ↑ Bernd Fäthke, Jawlensky and his companions in a new light, Munich 2004, p. 110 ff
  6. ↑ Encyklopedia Powszechna , Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warsaw 1976, quoted at: Pinakoteka.zascianek.pl
  7. ↑ Bernd Fäthke, Werefkin and Jawlensky with son Andreas in the “Murnauer Zeit”, in exhib. Cat .: 1908–2008, 100 Years Ago, Kandinsky, Münter, Jawlensky, Werefkin in Murnau, Murnau 2008, p. 52 f, Cat. 80–81, Fig. 80–81

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to Encyklopedia PWN - Ślewiński Władysław , accessed on February 13, 2013, the DNB (Tp 119124459 ) states 1854
personal data
SURNAME Ślewiński, Władysław
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish painter and founding member of the Młoda Polska movement
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Białynin near Mikołajów
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1918 or March 27, 1918
Place of death Paris