Stanislaw Bagienski - Polish painter at Polona etc

 Salvete Omnes,

Jozef Dwernicki - the November Uprising 1830-31

 

a short entry - uff, I watched with lots of gusto the final of the Quatar 2022 World Cup : what a football/soccer game between Argentina and France. Vivat Argentina, new world champion.

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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 -

Valete
*
Varsovian - native to Warsaw, capital of Poland.

Juliusz Holzmuller and his watercolors

 Salvete Omnes,

today a short entry with yet another Polish horse painter. 

Juliusz Holzmuller was a Polish watercolor, gouache, and ink painter active during the first part of the XX century.
Maestro Juliusz was born in Bolechow (now in Ukraine) in 1876, the year George Custer and his command died at Little Big Horn in Montana.

 

He went to school in Lwow (about 90 km from his hometown), known then as the C.K. State Industrial School, where he studied decorative painting with  professors and artists like Roman  Bratkowski, Stanisław Józef  Rejchan , and Tadeusz  Rybkowski. Then in 1898 he became a student at the Krakow's Fine Art Academy with Florian Cynk,  Józef  Mehoffer  i Teodor  Axentowicz etc where he studied until finishing his academic studies in 1906. In 1903 through 1904 he took one year leave or 'sabbatical'  from his Krakow studies and went on to study at the Munich Art Academy.
Upon terminating his studies he settled in Stanislawow (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine), where he worked a teacher of drawing at the town's middle and high schools etc. He showed his work at Krakow Society of Friends of Fine Arts and other venues throughout  partitioned Poland. He eventually moved to Lwow, here he became a drawing teacher at the Nikolaus Copernicus' 1st State (c.k.) High School. He painted large size watercolors, and one of them, showing Japanese Imperial cavalry, was purchased for the officer club in Tokyo, where it may still be surviving.
Also he painted portraits  of the famous Taurow Polish Arabian stud farm* horses at the request of Longin Łobos, nephew of the founder, Dionizy Trzeciak. Pan Juliusz passed away in 1932 in Lwow, 7 years before his world become no more (Soviet, Germand and Ukrainain UPA eradication of the Poles in this beautiful land of Red Ruthenia aka eastern LittlePoland.

He painted horses, horse people, Huculs and local topics like markets or hunting, also landscapes and many other topics.

 

You can explore - via your browser's search engine - his watercolors and other works in various galleries and auction houses around the Internet.

Hucul wedding party

Hucul wedding party with musicians

Valete

*Taurow stud farm and estate was located in the vicinity of Taurow village in present day Ukraine, 28 km north-west of Brzezany,  Tarnopol oblast,

Tadeusz Rybkowski - genre painter

 Salvete Omnes,

 

today, I would like to corral some artwork from the brushes and pencil by yet another Polish painter blossomed during the Partition Era - Tadeusz Rybkowski (1848-1926), disciple of Wladyslaw Luszczkiewicz, Leopold Loffler and Hansk Makart. He settled in Austrian held city of Lwow (then much bigger center of Polish culture than Krakow) where he taught and prospered through War World I and Polish Independence wars etc. 

Dorotheum page on maestro Rybkowski

 

so some of his works (minus the market scenes, as I will make a separate entry about them) - historical paintings, genre paintings, landscapes, horses and Hucul peasants of Carpathian mountains

 

Valete

Władysław Szerner - part II

Salvete Omnes,
8 years ago I posted this entry about Wladyslaw Szerner.
well, nowadays there is a short page about this painter on Wikipedia and even a gallery - therefore I will coral some paintings from that gallery:

 and three paintings by his son Wladyslaw Karol Szerner

Valete!