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
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Varsovian - native to Warsaw, capital of Poland.

Vienna 12.09.1683-2015

Salve,

yet another anniversary, yes, I know, September is one of those months ...

well, damas y caballeros, today while reading about the anniversary of the famous battle of Vienna AD 1683 I realised that I had never done a post about it.
Hence,  in order to correct this injustice and to mend this sorrowful state of affairs I am adding a post - :)

I want to say one thing though, I believe that the victorious allied forces under our good king Jan III had the Fortuna's blessing that fine afternoon on the Danube plain. Ottoman Turks fought like lions and falcons, but on this day the Polish husaria and pancerni cavalry were like winged tigers and they bested the Turkish lions. 

Before the charge that decided the battle's outcome Jan Sobieski told his friends, warriors and soldiers about to charge the enemy:

'Ten sam nieprzyjaciel, któregoś my pobili pod Chocimiem, stoi przed nami. Jesteśmy wprawdzie w obcym kraju lecz nie walczymy dla obcej sprawy. Walczymy za nasz kraj i za chrześcijaństwo, nie dla cesarza, lecz dla Boga.'' (The very enemy  whom we vanquished at Khotyn stands before you. Admittedly we are in a foreign country however we are not fighting for a foreign cause. We are fighting for our country and for Christianity, not for the emperor, but for God.' )

After the battle Jan III stated in his letter to the Pope innocent IX - Venimus, vidimus, Deus vicit.

(we came, we saw, God won) - I do like the above painting by Jan Matejko.

King Jan also said that [after this battle] the Turkish horses would be easily available in Poland. True enough, many beautiful and most valuable Turkish and Arabian horses were captured at the Turkish camp after this battle . 

Enjoy
ps
soon I am hoping to write a little about Jan III Sobieski's uncle  Stanisław Daniłłowicz whose life was untimely lost in the struggle against the Tatars.