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Zygmunt Waliszewski (1897-1936)
Professions: Painter
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Zygmunt Waliszewski 1897 - 1936
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Zygmunt Waliszewski, NA SKRAJU LASU, 1929 R.
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Zygmunt Waliszewski, NA SKRAJU LASU, 1929 R.
Zygmunt Waliszewski Biography
(b St Petersburg, 1 Dec 1897; d Kraków, 5 Oct 1936). Polish painter of Russian birth. He painted and exhibited his work from a very early age. His drawings from this period show his extreme dexterity and sense of humour and parody, as in Ingres Drawing Odalisques (1915; K. M. Zdaniewicz priv. col.). After he settled in Poland he trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (1921–4) under Wojciech Weiss and Józef Pankiewicz. He continued his education in Paris as one of the KAPISTS, where he was able to study the Old Masters. Freely interpreting their art he created a number of works that depicted well-known literary and mythological subjects. Scenes like feasts, shown theatrically, with Italian Renaissance stylization of costumes and architecture, were executed in quick and sketchy oil technique. Waliszewski’s very individual style derived from Post-Impressionism. He applied separate touches of pure colour and made very limited use of chiaroscuro. He often modelled forms with strong contours and thick impastos, as in Balzac (1931; Warsaw, N. Mus.). One of his last works was The Concert (1935–6), a ceiling painting at the Wawel Castle in Kraków.
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