Wladimir de Terlikowski or Włodzimierz Terlikowski (1873–1951) was a Polish painter mainly active in France.

Life

Born to a noble family near

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

, he discovered art on several trips to France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Switzerland and North Africa. After short periods studying in the academy of fine arts in Munich and the Parisian studio of

Jean-Paul Laurens Jean-Paul Laurens (; 28 March 1838 – 23 March 1921) was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style. Biography Laurens was born in Fourquevaux and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexand ...

, Terlikowski's first works were close to

Fauvism Fauvism /ˈfoʊvɪzm̩/ is the style of ''les Fauves'' (French language, French for "the wild beasts"), a group of early 20th-century modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the Representation (arts), repr ...

and got him noticed by the galerie Galerie Bernheim-Jeune. Terlikowski set up a studio in Montparnasse, where he was a contemporary of Modigliani, Soutine,

Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

, Derain and

Vlaminck Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 – 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse, he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 w ...

Exhibitions

* Exposition Władimir de Terlikowski (21 April - 3 May 1913), Chez MM Bernheim-Jeune * L'art polonais en France, paysages du Morbihan (20 November - 2 December 1916), Chez MM Bernheim-Jeune * Exposition W. de Terlikowski: Venise, Paris, Provence - Hotel Charpentier - 21 April-19 May 1927 * Wladimir de Terlikowski: May–June 1981, Troyes, Centre culturel Thibaud de Champagne * Wladimir de Terlikowski : June–October 2002, Musée des Peintres de l'Ecole de Murol - 63 Murol * Wladimir de Terlikowski : February 2012, Bibliothèque Polonaise de Paris - 75004 Paris"The island Saint-Louis by Frédéric Vitoux"
''Le Figaro''. Retrieved 2017-01-12.

Museums exhibiting his works

* Musée National d'Art Moderne -

Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...

Musée des beaux-arts de Bordeaux The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux is the fine arts museum of the city of Bordeaux, France. The museum is housed in a dependency of the Palais Rohan in central Bordeaux. Its collections include paintings, sculptures and drawings from the 15t ...

* Musée des beaux-arts de

Troyes Troyes () is a commune and the capital of the department of Aube in the Grand Est region of north-central France. It is located on the Seine river about south-east of Paris. Troyes is situated within the Champagne wine region and is near to ...

* Musée de Murol

Bibliography

Arsène Alexandre Arsène Alexandre (16 August 1859, Paris – 1 October 1937, Brain sur Allonnes) was a French art critic. He was a contributor to ''L'Événement'', ''Le Paris'' and ''L'Éclair'' and in 1894 was one of the founders of the satirical journal ''L ...

, "W. de Terlikowski Peintre'', éditions Alcan, Paris, 1927 * Jan-Topass, "W de Terlikowski" Editions "Le Triangle" Paris 1930 *

"Terlikowski" Peintre de Figures, copyright by A. Alexandre, 1934 * ''Wladimir de Terlikowski: his life and art'', Par Bennard B. Perlman, Martha Walker Fullington, éditions W. Vance Brown II, 1998

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Terlikowski, Vladimir 19th-century Polish painters 19th-century Polish male artists 20th-century Polish painters 20th-century Polish male artists 1951 deaths 1873 births Polish male painters