Wincenty Kasprzycki

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Mill at Strawberry near the Thames (Polish: Młyn w Strawberry nad Tamizą), 1845, oil on canvas, held by the Lithuanian Art Museum in Vilnius
Art exhibition in Warsaw in 1828 (Polish: Wystawa Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie w 1828 roku), 1828, inventory of the Warsaw National Museum

Wincenty Kasprzycki (* 1802 in Warsaw ; † May 27, 1849 there ) was a Polish painter and lithographer . He is considered a classicist painter and one of the most important Polish landscape painters of his time.

Life

Kasprzycki completed an apprenticeship with Konstanty Villani (1751-1824), the curator of the picture gallery of magnate Kajetan Jözef Ossoliński (1764-1834). He then studied - financially supported by Ossoliński - at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Warsaw University and from 1821 to 1828 at Vilnius University under Jan Rustem (1762-1835). He then settled in Warsaw. From 1832 to 1838 he worked mainly on behalf of Aleksander Potocki, for whom he made a series of pictures with views of the Warsaw area (Wilanów, Natolin , Powązki cemetery, etc.).

Kasprzycki painted in oil, watercolor and gouache and specialized in landscape paintings and cityscapes ( vedute ). In the course of time, the architectural motif took a back seat in favor of genre elements . His lithographs were mainly portraits.

The largest collection of Kasprzycki's pictures is in the Warsaw National Museum; further works are in the holdings of the Museum Gallery of the Wilanów Palace , the Mielżyński Gallery in Poznan , the Lithuanian Art Museum in Vilnius and the Lubomirski Museum in Lviv .

His grandson of the same name (1906–1965) was a Polish sculptor.

References and comments

  1. ↑ The importance of this work lies in its documentary content. It shows an exhibition in a hall of Warsaw University. Antoni Brodowski and Marcin Zaleski as well as Kasprzycki (seated in the foreground) are recognizable among the portrayed artists . Some lost paintings (by Anton Blank and Brodowski) can also be seen. The picture, which gives an impression of the Polish exhibition system in the first half of the 19th century, is unique in its subject matter.
  2. ↑ according to Lothar Schultes (Red.), Sehnsucht Natur: Landscapes of Europe , from the series: Catalogs of the Upper Austrian State Museums, Volume 1, Land Oberösterreich, Landesmuseen, Linz 2009, ISBN 9783854742067 , p. 411.
  3. ↑ according to Information Polish Painting from 1764 till 1914 ( Memento of January 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the National Museum in Warsaw (in English).
  4. ↑ according to Wincenty Kasprzycki Biography at Grove Art excerpts, Oxford Art Online via Artfact.com (in English)
  5. ↑ according to Bettina-Martine Wolter, The Four Seasons. Polish landscape painting from the Enlightenment to the present day , National Museums in Warsaw and Posen, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Verlag der Kunst, 2000, p. 38

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. 214 ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Kasprzycki, Wincenty
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1849
Place of death Warsaw