The Church of St Anne
| Author: | Zofia Stankiewicz (1862–1955) |
The Polish graphic artist Zofia Stankiewicz (1862–1955) studied at a drawing school in Warsaw. In 1880 she left for Paris, where she studied at the Académie Julian. When she returned to Warsaw, she studied painting under Konrad Krzyżanowski and Kazimierz Stabrowski, and was an admirer of Symbolism. She became interested in graphic art around 1904, and mastered the arts of etching and aquatint. She showed her work not only in Poland, but also abroad, in Venice, Paris, London and Stockholm, and won several awards for it. She liked to depict corners of old towns, and arranged her pictures together in portfolios, with names such as ‘Old Warsaw’, ‘Vilnius’, ‘Cracow’ and ‘Cottages’. Her style formed under the influence of the graphic art and nocturnes by the eminent English artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler. She used chiaroscuro effects in order to poeticise architecture, and turned material shapes into a spiritual experience.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: VILNIUS. TOPOPHILIA I (2014). Compiler and author Laima Laučkaitė.
The Polish graphic artist Zofia Stankiewicz (1862–1955) studied at a drawing school in Warsaw. In 1880 she left for Paris, where she studied at the Académie Julian. When she returned to Warsaw, she studied painting under Konrad Krzyżanowski and Kazimierz Stabrowski, and was an admirer of Symbolism. She became interested in graphic art around 1904, and mastered the arts of etching and aquatint. She showed her work not only in Poland, but also abroad, in Venice, Paris, London and Stockholm, and won several awards for it. She liked to depict corners of old towns, and arranged her pictures together in portfolios, with names such as ‘Old Warsaw’, ‘Vilnius’, ‘Cracow’ and ‘Cottages’. Her style formed under the influence of the graphic art and nocturnes by the eminent English artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler. She used chiaroscuro effects in order to poeticise architecture, and turned material shapes into a spiritual experience.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: VILNIUS. TOPOPHILIA I (2014). Compiler and author Laima Laučkaitė.
