Witold Pruszkowski
Witold Pruszkowski (* 1846 in Bershad in today's Ukraine , † 1896 in Budapest ) was a Polish painter.
Life
Pruszkowski spent his youth in Odessa and Kiev . Later he went to Dieppe and Paris, where he received his first painting training from the portrait painter Tadeusz Gorecki (a son-in-law of Adam Mickiewicz ). He continued his studies from 1869 to 1872 at the Munich Art Academy under professors Alexander Strähuber and Hermann Anschütz . As a result, he studied at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts with Jan Matejko until 1876 .
In 1882 Pruszkowski moved to the village of Mników near Kraków; here he concentrated entirely on painting and created many of his peasant genre paintings . In 1890 the artist made several trips to Ukraine and with his brother to Italy, Algeria and Tunisia.
In the last years of his life he was sick. After disappearing from home without a word, he was found at the train station in Budapest, and two days later he died in a local hospital.
His pictures have been exhibited internationally, for example in Berlin, Chicago (he received a silver medal here in 1893) and Paris. Works by Pruszkowski can be found in many Polish museums today; the national museums in Krakow and Warsaw have the most extensive collections . His best-known painting is the work “In Exile in Siberia” (Polish: Na zesłanie w Sybir), also called “The March to Siberia” (Polish: Pochód na Sybir) - see picture on the right. The work, created around 1893, is in the Lviv Art Gallery.
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Pruszkowski painted with oil and pastel , and occasionally made pencil drawings. The influence of French painting, as represented by Édouard Manet , can be seen in his works . Elements of Arnold Böcklin's painting are also included. At first he painted portraits, but soon devoted himself to the mythical . He was enthusiastic about the world of legends and folk tales, accordingly many of his pictures are fantastic scenes, whose realistic habitus romantic elements dominate. A second group of his works are genre paintings from the lives of villagers from the area around Krakow. His landscapes are similar to those of Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot .
Symbolism appears later in his work. Here the painter borrows motifs from the works of Polish romantic poets such as Juliusz Słowacki (“Anhelli”) or Zygmunt Krasiński (“Przedświt”). Pruszkowski is a pioneer of painting the modernist movement of the Young Poland .
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. 246 f.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Topic is the superstition of the rural population of Galicia , according to which atmospheric natural events are interpreted anthropomorphically
- ↑ according to Agnieszka Morawińska, Symbolizm w malarstwie polskim. 1890-1914 , from the series: Sztuka ŝwiata , ISBN 9788321335247 , Arkady, 1997, p. 208 (in Polish)
- ↑ according to Stefan Muthesius, Polska - Art, Architecture, Design. 966-1970 , ISBN 3784576125 , Karl Robert Langewiesche successor / Hans Köster publishing house, Königstein im Taunus 1994
- ↑ according to Agnieszka Morawińska, Polish Painting from the Gothic to the Present , Wolfgang Jöhling (transl.), ISBN 83-221-0248-8 , Auriga, Warsaw 1984, p. 40
- ↑ according to Susanne Böttcher (Ed.), Poland , from the series: Michelin. The green travel guide , ISBN 978-3-8342-8993-3 , Travel House Media, Munich 2006, p. 37
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pruszkowski, Witold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bershad |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1896 |
| Place of death | Budapest |