Chełmoński`s horses and countryside

[Bonobo]

Mar 27, 2009 15:48:01 GMT 1 tufta said:

One of the days of this crazy (weatherwise) end of March I've spent in a little town in Mazovia. The town is far away from main touristical routes, and that's it's charm. It has however something special - well, every town or even village seems to have, it is just a matter of how deep one has to dig to uncover it. This little town's something special is the person of one of the greatest Polish painters - Józef Chełmoński.



Chelmonski's paintings replicas are everywhere
=


Józef Chełmoński
=

=
=
Józef Chełmoński watching his painting
=

Józef Marian Chełmoński (November 7, 1849 – April 6, 1914) was a Polish painter.

Chełmoński was born in the village of Boczki near Łowicz in central Congress Poland, Russian Empire. His first drawing teacher was his father (a small leaseholder and administrator of Boczki village). After finishing high school in Warsaw, he studied in Warsaw Drawing Class (1867–1871) and took private lessons from Wojciech Gerson. From 1871 to 1874 Chełmoński lived in Munich. He worked with Polish painters assembled around Jozef Brandt and Maksymilian Gierymski. He also had studied for a few months at the academy of H. Anschutz and A. Strahuber. In 1872 and 1874 Chełmoński visited the Polish territories (Poland as a country did not exist then), Tatra Mountains and Ukraine.
His first paintings were done under the influence of Gerson. The works that followed were landscapes and villages. In 1875 Chełmoński went to Paris, where he had many important exhibitions and became known to the art scene. With many orders, the artistic level of his paintings decreased.
From 1878 to 1887 Chełmoński visited Poland, Vienna and Venice. In 1887 he returned to Poland and in 1889 settled in Kuklowka village. Contact with his homeland and nature revealed quality in his artworks. From that time are the best liked Chełmoński's paintings such as Partridge on the Snow, The Storks or Before Thunderstorm.
Chełmoński represented the trend in art called "Polish Patriotic Painting".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Marian_Che%C5%82mo%C5%84ski



He was famous for his depictions of horses and nature of the Polish/Ukrainian countryside.

Rain


Before hunt


Hunt


Indian summer


Thaw in Ukraine


Moon night


Dance


Horse fair




Messenger


Three horse


4






Ukrainian town


Russian cossacks


[/img]

Winter


Attack of wolves


Ford


Insurgents, January Uprising 1863


Before storm


Courting


Frog concert






Hunting wood grouse






Partridges on snow




Thunderstorm


Ploughing




Prayer before the battle at Racławice


Scytheman








Morning myst


Self-portrait


See more here:
www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Chelmonski/Index.htm
www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Chelmonski/Chelmonski_2.htm
www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Chelmonski/Chelmonski_3.htm
www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Chelmonski/Chelmonski_4.htm
www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Chelmonski/Chelmonski_5.htm
www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Chelmonski/Chelmonski_6.htm
www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Chelmonski/Chelmonski_7.htm
www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Chelmonski/Chelmonski_9.htm

[tufta]

Chełmoński's house in Kuklówka.
The house didn't survive until contemporary times



House interior



Shortly prior to death



In concord with his will Józef Chełmoński was buried at a nearby countryside cemetery in Ojrzanów - Żelechów



The cemetery remained local till today, it is still surrounded by the fields







Artist's tomb

[tufta]

Recently one of Józef Chełmoński's paintings was displayed in public for the first time since it was painted in 1878. The title of the painting is 'W podróży' (Travelling).




A photo from a catalogue to remind the picture - the new owner of the painting asked not to take pictures of the original.



Before the painting goes to home of a new owner it can be watched in the Radziejowice palace till 20th April. Radziejowice is a village close towhere Józef Chełmoński's lived in Kuklówka.




Interior of the palace



While leaving Radziejowice I saw the first stork this year

[Bonobo]

Apr 15, 2009 14:46:55 GMT 1 tufta said:

Sorry for a much too small size of the photos, I was somehow unable to enclose a fully legible size, I am doing something wrong.

Small but still with discernible details.

You probably have a problem with converting your pics into smaller size in your PC, not with loading them in photobucket.

[jeanne]

Tufta,

Thanks for these photos. I love chelmonski's work (and I like your first stork of the season! ;D)

[tufta]

Jeanne, Bo, thanks. I have fixed the problem. It was due to a wrong option chosen while downloading pictures from the camera to photo bucket.

[Bonobo]

Apr 16, 2009 19:19:01 GMT 1 tufta said:

Jeanne, Bo, thanks. I have fixed the problem. It was due to a wrong option chosen while downloading pictures from the camera to photo bucket.

You transfer them directly from the camera to the photo bucket? You are a gieroj to do that.