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| Author: | Konstanty Górski (1869–1934) |
Konstanty Górski (1868–1934) was born in Kazimieravas, near Kaunas. He acquired his first skills in art at drawing school in Vilnius. After improving his skills in Moscow, St Petersburg, Munich and Paris, and after visiting Italy, he settled in Warsaw in 1895. He was famous as a painter of formal portraits, and favoured historical genre pictures, which he developed not only in painting but in graphic art as well, some of which, such as his illustrations to the novel Krzyżacy (The Teutonic Knights) by Henryk Sienkiewicz, became so popular that they were published as collections of reproductions and postcards. He may have been influenced by the work of the popular portrait painter Giovanni Boldini when he was staying in Paris, although he never managed to acquire Boldini’s virtuosity. In Lithuania, before the First World War, he painted portraits of Jarosław Kosakowski, the owner of the Žeimiai estate, and his son, the owner of the Vėžaičiai estate, Eduard Volmer, and other landowners. He participated in art exhibitions in Vilnius in 1910 and 1914. Pictures of his were shown at the 1900 Paris World Fair, where Art Nouveau was established as an international style. Nevertheless, Górski did not succumb to the influence of the new trend, and remained a truly 19th-century artist.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: MORE THAN JUST BEAUTY (2012). Compiler and author Giedrė Jankevičiūtė.
Konstanty Górski (1868–1934) was born in Kazimieravas, near Kaunas. He acquired his first skills in art at drawing school in Vilnius. After improving his skills in Moscow, St Petersburg, Munich and Paris, and after visiting Italy, he settled in Warsaw in 1895. He was famous as a painter of formal portraits, and favoured historical genre pictures, which he developed not only in painting but in graphic art as well, some of which, such as his illustrations to the novel Krzyżacy (The Teutonic Knights) by Henryk Sienkiewicz, became so popular that they were published as collections of reproductions and postcards. He may have been influenced by the work of the popular portrait painter Giovanni Boldini when he was staying in Paris, although he never managed to acquire Boldini’s virtuosity. In Lithuania, before the First World War, he painted portraits of Jarosław Kosakowski, the owner of the Žeimiai estate, and his son, the owner of the Vėžaičiai estate, Eduard Volmer, and other landowners. He participated in art exhibitions in Vilnius in 1910 and 1914. Pictures of his were shown at the 1900 Paris World Fair, where Art Nouveau was established as an international style. Nevertheless, Górski did not succumb to the influence of the new trend, and remained a truly 19th-century artist.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: MORE THAN JUST BEAUTY (2012). Compiler and author Giedrė Jankevičiūtė.
