Dariusz caballeros: Stanislaw Bagienski - Polish painter at Polona etc

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Jozef Dwernicki - the November Uprising 1830-31

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Stanislaw Bagienski(1876-1948) a native-born 'Varsovian*,' was a Polish painter active between the end of the XIX century and 1948 (thus he lived through the Great War - which was terrible within the Polish lands, the wars of Restitution of Poland, and finally the tragedy of World War II and coming of the Soviets and their henchmen into Poland. Another Polish artist born in the year of Little Big Horn.

At first Bagienski studied under his father Feliks (Felix), continuing his art studies at the Wojciech Gerson drawing atelier/school at Warsaw (then Russian Poland), then circa 1900-1901 he went to Munich and Paris to further his studies in their respective fine arts academies until 1903. Upon returning to Poland he started fully his art career, from full canvas paintings to illustrations for various periodicals of the period (leading Polish periodicals like Tygodnik Ilustrowny, Biesiada Literacka, and Swiat).

disarming of the German soldiers in Warsaw in November 1918

Circa 1922 he joined the 'Pro Arte' artist group or movement in Warsaw and perhaps stayed with them until it was no more, or circa 1932.

In 1927 Bagienski, then established artist, joined the faculty, as a professor, the very Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.

Maestro Bagienski painted scenes from Polish history, including plenty of military-related topics, cavalrymen, famous commanders and common soldiers, from the Old Poland stories, through Napoleonic Wars through Polish uprising to more contemporaneous events of the Great War and Polish wars of Independence 1918-21, and post-1918 Polish soldiers and their horses. Also his topics included book illustrations and genre scenes..

As you can see clearly maestro Stanislaw painted plenty of horses and this is why I decided to include him in this gallery of painters and equestrian artists on my blog.

Images of his works in sepia from Polona Polish National Library -