Jan Rosen - Amazon

 Salvete Omnes,

Polish painter Jan Bogumil Rosen (1854-1936) is famous for his equestrian and military-themed canvas - like the the immortal battle of Stoczek. 

He also painted portraits (in 1882), and here w have a very large painting - 73,6" by 66,5" (187cmx169cm)
I don't think his art has been published in an album, so it is kind of difficult to find a definitive collection of his life work. There is a collection of Jan B. Rosen' recollections written down by Anna Leo, published in Warsaw 1933. It is in Polish language and available to download on Polona - Polish National library.

His lineage is interesting, on one side he was the descendant of a famous astrologer Jacobus Leo, brought to Krolewiec/Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad), Ducal Prussia, by the Prussian duke Albrecht in the XVI century. His ancestors on maternal and paternal sides originally were of Jewish faith  but they converted back in the XVIII century etc to various Protestant denominations. His Warsaw ancestors were native to Warsaw, of wealthy bourgeois family, doctors and lawyers, scientists and artists etc.

per his art studies, Jan B. Rosen was educated under the tutelage of Jozef Brandt at the Academia of Fine Arts in Munich (Polish artists' veritable 'Mecca' during the Partition period) and later in Paris (Adacemie des Beaux-Artes) under Jean-Louis Gerome and Isidoreer Pils.

He was married to Wanda Hantke, daughter of the famous Polish Partition-period industrialist Bernard Ludwik Hantke, and they had one son who was the famous muralist Jan Henryk de Rosen (1891-1982) and two daughters, Zofia who was a sculptor, and Maria. 

Have a nice Saturday 

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Jozef Brandt's horse sketches from Polish museums digital collections

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another weekend is in full swing - so I would like to share some of the equestrian-themed drawings by this maestro of pencil and brush, from Poland's national collections, like this Brandt's page at the National Museum in Warsaw. 

and the peasant farmer's wagon and his two horses

and a 'little' red cow, the gentle bovine that has  been the most wondrous provider of her milk, cream, butter, meat and leather etc  for many thousands of years. 

Enoy

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Henryk Pillati - paintings of war, horse races and Berek Joselewicz

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a short entry - in fact just I am bringing to your attention great art of a  painter Henryk (Henry, Engrique) Pillati (1832-1894), who was a Polish painter and illustrator of the Partition era. 

 

the last fight of colonel Berek Joselewicz of the 5th regiment of the chasseur a cheval (strzelcy konni) of the Duchy of Warsaw , sabred by the Hungarian hussars near Kock in 1809

 

enjoy

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Kossak - 1877 Lwow (Lemberg) Expo horses

Salvete Omnes,
a short entry -
I would like to bring to your attention two published prints from Tygodnik Ilustrowany (1878 - The Illustrated Weekly) that were intended to depict notable horse presented at the Lwow (then Lemberg, Austrian Partition or the invented by the Austrians  Galicia & Lodomeria) Provincial Expo in 1877AD.
The drawings for these two plates were done from life by one of my favorite Polish artists of all times - Juliusz Kossak.

The plates were published the following year and did no have any more text or description but the small print at the bottom of each plate.

First Plate - 

the horses depicted above with the owner's name:

a- Percheron horse- by count Alfred Potocki

b-Ardennais, stallion & mare -  by prince Adam Sapieha

c- Ksiaze, konik zmudzinek aka Samogitian stallion, by Teofil Ostaszewski

d-Tarant (spotted horse aka Appaloosa ) and srokacz(Paint) - by Oczosalski

e- carriage mares - by count Willhelm Sieminski

f- peasant horses - by Forczyk, a farmer from Stare Siolo village

g- horses- by Kazimierz Szeliski

 

Second Plate -

the horses depicted:

a- Gulda, part-Arabian mare - by Trzeciak

b-Obeyan & Partyzant - Arabians - by prince Heronim Lubomirski

c-Tarant - by Sozanski

d-Suliman, young stallion or colt by Hulimek?

e-Granat - English Thoroughbred stallion - by count Stefan Zamoyski

f-Hajdamak, stallion- by Siemiginiowski

g- 3 mares - by count Juliusz Dzieduszycki

h- a stallion - by count Waclaw Baworowski

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Ludwik Gędłek pinxit

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'Cracovians' aka 'Krakusi' crossing a river - MN

 

today a little excursion into the XIX century world of Ludwik Gędłek (Ludwik Gedlek, German - Ludwig Gedlek), Polish genre painter of the Poland's Partition period, who upon finish his studies under prof. Władysław Łuszczkiewicz at the Cracow Academy of Arts went on to study and practice & prosper at the imperial (Austro-Hungarian)  Vienna. Some English-language sites call pan Ludwik a German painter, which is a pure ignorance pf the Central-European history :) in the Anglo-American style.
Definitely we can see & observe that master Ludwik Gedlek painted in his unique style - drawing from the historic and contemporary scenes, showing East-Central European landscapes.

On Agra-Art site there is a substantial gallery of Geldek's works -  below the artwork collected from Wiki Commons

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