Salvete Omnes,
the very brand new year is upon us, so to speak.
Enjoy your party and revelry tonight.
Happy New Year.
Dosiego Roku - Feliz Ano Nuevo
and some olden Polish postcards from the all but gone era of sending ornate, illustrative and suggestive greetings cards to family and friends.
enjoy
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Salvete Omnes,
Happy Thanksgiving to you, my friends and fellow net travelers, & your family!!
and my older post about the wild turkey of the Americas
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Salvete Omnes,
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| auriga, wagon driver - woznica |
a short entry -
National Mseum of Arts in Warsaw, Poland holds this special exhibit - a showcase of Jozef Chelmonski's painting.
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| there was no music like the folk music, Chopin's mazurkas etc came from this tradition |
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| Polish Jewish wagon driver |
my favorite non-equestrian painting of Chelmonski - it remainds of the woods of my childhood in Lowicz Masovia (Mazowsze)
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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.
You can explore - via your browser's search engine - his watercolors and other works in various galleries and auction houses around the Internet.
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| Hucul wedding party |
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| Hucul wedding party with musicians |
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*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,
Salvete Omnes,
today let us loot at the gallery of works by a great genre painter from the Slavic lands, i.e., Bulgarian kingdom, Czechia and Slovakia (then part of the Hungarian Kingdom).
so this pre-World War I Czech painter, Jaroslav Vesin, studied in in Prague with prof. Antonin Lhota, and then in Munich (with Jozef Brandt and Karl von Piloty et al.) . He was one the founders of the painting school in Sofia, Bulgaria where he remained until his death in 1915AD.
so this is a vibrant country life - robust peasant life and some hunting
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