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THE "SLAVITUDE" Olga Boznanska

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A palette of subtle harmonies, an invoice at once natural, dynamic, removed, however sweet, sometimes ethereal, but sought, almost sophisticated, even spiritual, through which we perceive a very strong personality Slave counterpoint from which these tones sometimes tonic, mixed with a Melancholy noticeable. The work of Olga Boznanska can not stay indifferent.


The bill is sometimes reminiscent of Whistler, with something of Marie Laurencin, but this remains a personal impression.

Selfportrait Pinacoteca Rascianeck

Olga Boznanska painter movement Mloda Polska (Young Poland), was born April 15, 1865 to 21 ulica (Street) today Wolska Street Pilsudski in Krakow , eldest of two daughters of Adam Boznanska Nowina, railway engineer graduated from the Technical University of Vienna (Austria), and his wife Eugenia Boznanska Nowina Mondan. Eugenia Mondan was of French nationality. Maybe it was the reason for which his daughter was later drawn to Paris. Olga's younger sister, Isabel, meanwhile, devoted herself to music.

Zamyslona ( Pensive)

child early talent for drawing, like his mother who instilled in him without doubt his taste for the arts, giving him his first lessons, began her training in workshops Józef Siedlecki, of Hipolit Lipinski, then Pochwalski Kazimierz. She joined the course later Adriana Baraniecki before leaving, at the age of 19 years in 1886 for Munich, which remained a community of Polish artist, (it was also the city where Gustave Courbet had pierced before being recognized in France). Now at that time, the Academy of Fine Arts did not accept women! (Ah, the "Lady Sourdis"-character from a novel by Zola, there must have flopped in the meantime, talented artist forced to hide their passion! Or leave their husbands to sign their place as Madame Sourdis. .. Colette, for example, in another area. But that is another discussion, sorry to spill ..) So Boznanska Olga was forced to enroll in private schools in Munich, in Kricheldorf, mediocre painter but nonetheless excellent teacher and Karl Wilhelm Dürr. Then, the student passed his master ....

Oil on canvas 1891

In 1892, the mother of the deceased artist. Olga perfected her skills workshop by copying the works of old masters in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich and the paintings of Velazquez in Vienna, where she opened her first workshop under the tutelage of Jozef Brandt and Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski.

Macierzynstwo (Maternity) 1902

In 1895, she replaced Theodore Hummel, and became director of the School of painting it. In 1896, the artist created his own studio and began exhibiting works in Munich, Warsaw, Berlin and Vienna. Two years later came the first successes. From his earliest works, the artist tried to reveal the psychology of women.

portrait of the painter Paul Nauen - 1893

For the portrait of the painter Paul Nauen, she received at the hands of the Archduke Karl Ludwig Gold Medal of Vienna, and was rewarded in London for the "Portrait of Miss Mary Bremen. The same year, the board of the Society of Beaux-Arts in Paris dedicated a show, she was denied a decade ago in Munich, including Poland and did not like the works.

Cyganka

In 1898 she moved to Paris and became a member of "Sztuka", the Association of Polish Artists. Upon his arrival in the French capital, the artist focuses on the study of nostalgia, (characteristic of Slavic character) and on its faces pale tones ... Boznanska also painted landscapes, his studio, still lifes, especially flowers. However, these subjects remained on the fringes of the universe of feelings that the artist loved.

"Paris, Dome des Invalides"

In 1900, Olga received the gold medal at the New Gallery London, and won a prize at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, but the same year it was the break with his companion, the painter Joseph Czajkowski. From 1901 she was a member of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

the Umbrella

Boznanska sailed a clever way between the two cultures and two countries, France and Poland. She was rewarded in 1910 for lifetime achievement by the Legion d'Honneur, and in 1938 she received the highest distinction in Polish: Polonia Restituta. Olga Boznanska is regarded primarily as a portrait painter. His work is based on a thorough knowledge of the subjects depicted.

Bretonka (Breton) 1889

Bretonka 1890

In 1901, Olga exhibited for the first time in Pittsburgh. The French government made the acquisition of two portraits "Breton". In 1906, his father died. A year later, the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh awarded him its silver medal. In 1912 she represented France at an exhibition in Pittsburgh, with Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir. At the International Exhibition in Amsterdam, the artist won the silver medal. In 1914, the Warsaw School of Fine Arts offered him a professorship.

Kwiaty (flower) oil on cardboard

Then Fame Olga Boznanska lowered slowly. Fewer commissions for portraits ... Its main source of income was the rental of his home in Krakow. Yet the Museum of Cracow started to buy his paintings. In 1937 she received the Grand Prix at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. At the Venice Biennale in 1938, she sold five paintings, including Portrait Dygatowej, bought by the King of Italy. This was his last success. Two years later, October 26, 1940, she said farewell to this world. Olga lived in Paris until Boznanska the end of his life but kept in constant contact with Krakow. It is the artist's most famous and most popular art lovers from Poland.

Kwiaciarki (florists)
The Work Florists "in 1889, at the time of his studies. Inspired by Japanese art very fashionable in the late nineteenth century, Olga Boznanska presented with the charm of his own fashioning three little girls floral compositions. The influences of Japonisme occur in the delicacy of the drawing, the hair of young girls, the flower pot and other items just marked.

Japonka

" Autoportait with Parasol " (1892) also stems from the fascination of Boznanska for Japanese Art: Silhouette woman sitting on the parapet of an open window. The originality of his work lies in the model's pose and cons of luminosities day.

Imieniny Babun (the Birthday Grandma)

Another scene, far from ordinary in its design, comes from the time of his stay in Munich, and bears the title " Imieniny babun . A little girl with a bouquet of flowers to his grandmother. Olga Boznanska used a range of delicate colors, green and white posed of a generous and thick, hence the feeling of vibration, and accentuate the sadness of the child.

Dziewczynka z Chryzantemami 1894

A feeling very Slavic, both serious and melancholy emanates from his masterpiece, "Girl with Chrysanthemums" (1894). The silver color dominates. The climate of this portrait is very similar to poems by Maurice Maeterlinck that the artist appreciated. One criticism of art in the "Gazette des Beaux Arts" remarked the modern ideal of Maeterlinck created by Boznanska. source: wikipedia Polish part of the biography

Sloneczniki "Sunflowers"

Olga Boznanska was a member of Towarzystwo Artystow Polskich "Sztuka" (Society of Polish Artists), Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and Art in Paris Literary Society and International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Engravers in London. Since 1886, when her debut at the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Krakow, she presented her works in exhibitions in Poland, Europe and the United States, among others, Berlin (1892, 1893, 1913), Munich ( 1893), Prague, London and Paris (1896), at Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh (1901, 1906, 1907, 1920-28), Vienna (1902, 1908), Amsterdam (1912) and Venice (1910, 1914, 1938). She won several awards including the Gold Medal of the International Exhibition in Munich (1905), the French Legion of Honor (1912), Grand Prix of the Exposition Universelle in Paris (1937) and the Order of Polonia Restituta ( 1938).

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