Waclaw Pawliszak - malarz

 Salvete Omnes,

[in Polish]

Pisalem juz wczesniej o Waclawie Pawliszaku (1866-1905) - tutaj, tutaj i tutaj .. 

A wczoraj, 18 stycznia, minęła kolejna rocznica zastrzelenia/postrzelenia ze skutkiem śmiertelnym i śmierci  19 stycznia  imć Wacława Pawliszaka, dobrze rozwijającego się polskiego malarza rodzajowego, zabitego strzalem w glowe z rewolweru Smith & Wesson przez wschodzą gwiazdę rzeźby polskiej Xawerego Dunikowskiego, którego cień  położy się na XX wiecznej rzeźbie polskiej.

Na wstępie artykuł z ''Nowości Ilustrowane'', z Krakowa (wtedy zabór austro-węgierski), z 28 stycznia 1905roku - 

I przy okazji trochę grafik i skanów obrazów mości Wacława z Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie  i z Biblioteki Narodowej, jej wersji cyfrowej zwanej  Polona.

Pacem aeternam

Valete

Wacław Pawliszak - painter of horses - II

Salve,
continuing from several days ago, I have found more images by our turn of XX century equine artist Wacław Pawliszak in the ancient magazine (ceased publishing in 1939) ''Tygodnik Illustrowany'' (Weekly Illustrated) along with an article devoted to the artist and his art, written several years before his death.

here the article in Polish

.. these are paintings or drawings of paintings by the artist where horses were part of the subject depicted, mostly Orientalist in character. Unfortunately they are not in color, so we are deprived of his wonderful palette.

XVII century cavalry (Western) charge

Tatars' prisoner

Arabian Nights-like story illustrations

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the image below is a drawing of his painting showing Maria Aurora von Königsmarck, mistress to king of Poland Augustus the Strong and mother of Maurice de Saxe, meeting king of Sweden Charles XII in his camp during his invasion of Poland. Note the Janissary porters, a Polish Royal guard unit that had been started by king Jan Sobieski out of his Turkish Janissary prisoners, the Turkish soldiers were eventually replaced by the Polish ones dressed like Janissaries.

..  and here king Augustus the Strong, who was our great Saxon great hope that turned into national calamity.

.. A bridge toll, of sorts  :)

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above, the very first image is of the Vienna victor - king Jan Sobieski - entering liberated imperial Vienna

Wacław Pawliszak - painter of horses - I

Salve,
 in the past I brought to your attention the paintings of Wacław Pawliszak, a genre painter whose life was prematurely terminated by Xavery Dunikowski.


Well, I found some more images by this talented artist and would like to share them with you all.

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Winged hussar in rather more that full panoply but with a short lance and without pistols and koncerz standing guard, perhaps in the royal city of Lwow.

Three paintings showing Tatars

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Review of Husaria banners before the king  and hetman , with our fortress Kamieniec Podolski in the background

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Ottoman Turkish cavalry charge

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                                                                  Return with a bride

Polish-Lithuanian king Zygmunt III Vasa

Polish-Lithuanian king Wladyslaw IV Vasa

Polish Lithuanian king Michal Korybut Wiśniowiecki, son of the famous kniaz (prince) Jarema Wisniowiecki

Polish-Lithuanian king Jan Kazimierz Vasa

Turkish cavalryman 

War Trumpets - Polish horsemen XVI-XVII century

.. Husaria

sketches after Dolla Bella famous drawings of Polish ambassador Lubomirski entry into Rome from 1630s

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his last drawing of Warsaw firemen squad for ''Tygodnik Iliustrowany'' (the Weekly Illustrated'' published between 1859-1939) - from Warsaw, 1905

And a sort of eulogy written after his funeral, in Polish, with his photo in the center, published by Tygodnik Ilustrowany nr 28 on January 15, 1905.

  enjoy :)

Wacław Pawliszak - painter of horses - 1866-1905

Salve,
in January 1905 a rising star of Polish modern art Xawery Dunikowski shot and killed established painter and a very popular member of  Warsaw elites Wacław Pawliszak. They say it was a crime of passion, as it took place in a popular upscale restaurant full of important and known patrons eating dinner. The killer was never punished for his actions as the 1905 Revolution broke out and perhaps Xavery was too popular with then art world movers and shakers...

He was a disciple of Wojciech Gerson and Jan Matejko, lover of the so called Orientalist art and historical genre, especially Polish history, great painter of horses and mythology (illustrated Austrian/German edition of One Thousand and One Nights), great horseman and athlete, a  consumed traveler and bon vivant.

Monsieur or pan Pawliszak's works were collected privately, he died 13 years before the Restitution of Poland, and during the Communist or Soviet Poland this type of art was scorned and attempts were made to remove it from the so called ''public eye.'' Therefore most of his paintings, almost 400 were presented at the exhibit following his funeral (he left a daughter and an ailing wife), are in the private hands in Poland and perhaps in the US too, as lots of well-to-do Jewish Poles/Polish Jews took with them their paintings when emigrating to the US.

Let me show you some of pan Wacław paintings and sketches: