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Jan Feliks Piwarski – (20 November 1794, Puławy – 17 December 1859, Warsaw) was a Polish painter, curator, writer and graphic artist; one of the earliest lithographers in Poland.
by Ewa Micke-Broniarek @ Culture.pl. Two years later, he was appointed Curator of the print collection at the University of Warsaw and, shortly after, became Secretary of the University Library. He would hold both of these positions until the University was closed by the Russian authorities in 1832.Biographical notes
@ AgraArt.
In 1819, he travelled to Vienna as an advisor for the "Komisji Wyznań Religijnych i Oświecenia Publicznego" (Committee of Religious Affairs and Public Enlightenment). While there, he studied graphic techniques at the Imperial print collection with Adam von Bartsch. After returning, he worked to enlarge and organize the University's collection and wrote several articles on art and history for the ''Gazetą Literacką''. From 1820 to 1830, he worked with the "Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk" (Society of the Friends of Science) as artistic director for their ''Monumenta Regnum Poloniae Cracoviensis'' (Tombs of the Kingdom of Poland in Kraków).
Together with , he worked to promote a new lithographic technology; the
Jan Feliks Piwarski – (20 November 1794, Puławy – 17 December 1859, Warsaw) was a Polish painter, curator, writer and graphic artist; one of the earliest lithographers in Poland.
Biography
He came from a family of craftsmen and studied painting with Józef Richter (1780-1837). In 1816, he moved to Warsaw, where he took employment as a clerk for the "Komisji Sprawiedliwości" (Justice Committee).Brief biographyby Ewa Micke-Broniarek @ Culture.pl. Two years later, he was appointed Curator of the print collection at the University of Warsaw and, shortly after, became Secretary of the University Library. He would hold both of these positions until the University was closed by the Russian authorities in 1832.Biographical notes
@ AgraArt.
In 1819, he travelled to Vienna as an advisor for the "Komisji Wyznań Religijnych i Oświecenia Publicznego" (Committee of Religious Affairs and Public Enlightenment). While there, he studied graphic techniques at the Imperial print collection with Adam von Bartsch. After returning, he worked to enlarge and organize the University's collection and wrote several articles on art and history for the ''Gazetą Literacką''. From 1820 to 1830, he worked with the "Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk" (Society of the Friends of Science) as artistic director for their ''Monumenta Regnum Poloniae Cracoviensis'' (Tombs of the Kingdom of Poland in Kraków).
Together with , he worked to promote a new lithographic technology; the zincograph
Zincography was a planographic printing process that used zinc plates. Alois Senefelder first mentioned zinc's lithographic use as a substitute for Bavarian limestone in his 1801 English patent specifications. In 1834, Federico Lacelli pate ...
. In 1825, he took a trip to Berlin and Dresden to study new methods of museum curating. Following the failure of the November Uprising
The November Uprising (1830–31), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution,
was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in W ...
and the closing of the University, he oversaw the liquidation of the University's art and book collections; organizing the materials and preparing them for shipment to Saint Petersburg.
During the next decade, he wrote several works on art and art education, including ''Wzory i nauka rysunków'' (Models and Scientific Drawing), published in 1840 and reprinted several times. He also taught at an academy for young ladies and a private art school operated by Aleksander Kokular
Aleksander Kokular (9 August 1793, Warsaw – 6 April 1846, Warsaw) was a Polish painter, art collector and teacher. He was one of the co-founders of the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw and a prominent Freemason. Portraits (contemporary and histori ...
.
Later, he took an active role in helping to establish the "" (School of Fine Arts) in Warsaw. When it opened in 1844, he was given the chair of drawing and landscape painting, which he held until his retirement in 1848. He is credited with introducing the practice of painting en plein air.
His oil paintings were largely composed of landscapes and genre scenes, with a few works depicting events of the November Uprising. Among his best-known students were Wojciech Gerson, Franciszek Kostrzewski
Franciszek Kostrzewski (19 April 1826, Warsaw – 30 September 1911, Warsaw) was a Polish illustrator, cartoonist, caricaturist, comics artist Henryk Pillati, Józef Simmler and
File:Kazimierz Wojniakowski.jpg, Kazimierz Wojniakowski
File:Piwarski-Targ w Opatowie.jpg, Market in Opatów
File:Piwarski-Karczma Ostatni grosz-1845.jpg, The "Last Penny" Inn
File:Zygmunt Vogel.jpg, Zygmunt Vogel
Józef Szermentowski
Józef Szermentowski, or Szermętowski (16 February 1833 – 6 September 1876), was a Polish landscape painter, influenced by the Barbizon School.
Biography
At first, for reasons that are unclear, he lived with his aunt, the abbess of the local ...
. His son, Adolf, was a well-known miniaturist.
Selected works
References
Further reading
* Teresa Sulerzyska, Elżbieta Budzińska, Jadwiga Trenklerówna: ''Jan Feliks Piwarski. 1794-1859'', University of Warsaw, 1961 (Prace Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Warszawie, Volume 4)External links
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