Figure 1.--An important Polish arist is the impressionist Franciszek Striett (1839-90). Unfortunately we know nothing about him other than he produced some wonderful images of 19th century Polish life. Poland at the time was mostly within the Russian Empire. The work here was painted in 1876. Notice the suspenders and kneepants the boy is weasring and the pinafore, skierts, drawers, stripped stockings and strap shoes the girl is wearing. There is a lot of fascinating information about the inside of Polish homes here. Notice the goose in a cage under the cooking table. Also notice the toys the children have, both the doll and cart to the right.

We have very little information on Polish art at this time. We have archived some older Polish images on HBC, but we do not know the names of the artists. Quite a few do not appear to have been attributed. We note some paintings of Polish nobels. We have only found a few Polish artists and do not know much about the artists we have found. Hopefully our Polish readers will provide us some information about their country's art history and important artists.

Aleksandrowski, Eugeniusz (19??-99)

One of the few Polish artists we know by name at this time is Eugeniusz Aleksandrowski (19??-1999). He was Jewish and his paintings are dominated by his ecperiences during the Holocaust in NAZI-occupied Poland. Aleksandrowski was a Jewish-Polish painter who graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Surviving the Holocaust as a boy, he emigrated to Denmark in 1971. He had a few sporadic exhibitions. However, by his own choice, he remained quite anonumous until his death. Most of his work is dominated by his traumatic experiences during the Holocaust in which the NAZIs murdered the Jewish population of Poland.

(de) Lempicka, Tamara (Poland, 1898-1980)

Tamara de Lempicka was born Maria Gorska in Warsaw, Poland (1898). She was the embodiment of the art deco style in art. Although he name is not well known outside of art cirles, some of her images of indepenpendent, fas women from the intet-War period are instantly recognizable. She was boen into a wealthy and prominent Polish family. Poland was at the time part of the Russian empire. Her father was a lawyer. Her mother was the former Malvina Decler, a Polish socialite. Maria was the second of three children. She was sent to a boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was aay od escaping vRussian influence and adding international polish and learming French. At the time the Russians did not allow Polish language schools. She spent ime with her grandmother in Italy and the French Riviera (1911). She was able to view many artistic master works. Her parents divorced (1912). Maria went to live with a wealthy Aunt Stefa in St. Petersberg, Russia. She was thus iun Russia during World War I and the Russian Recolution. She was arrested by the Cheka, but managed to escape to Sweden. She deceloped a style of "soft cubism". She mostly psinted portraits and her images of fashionable women are art deco classics. She lived a Bohemian life in Paris during the Roaring-20s financed by wealthy lovers and husbands. One notable image rather out of character is "The Refugees", variously dated. It was probably painted in 1937 and thus may depict Spaish Civil War refugees. She managed to get out of Poland just before the NAZI invasion and spent the War un America doing some war relief.

Striett, Franciszek (1839-90)

An important Polish arist is the impressionist Franciszek Striett (1839-90). Unfortunately we know nothing about him other than he produced some wonderful images of 19th century Polish life. Poland at the time was mostly within the Russian Empire. We have not been able to find any biographical information. We have found some information on Polish, but are unable to translate it. "Na odwrocie napis ołówkiem p.g.: F. Streitt in München | Gabelsbergarstrasse No 18 | 1 Stiege - Atelier im Rückgebaüde. Poniżej strzępek papierowej, drukowanej nalepki, na którym lakowa pieczęć z literami F S oraz stempel: A Lenck | MÜNCHEN. Ponadto numery: 24318 (ołówkiem) i 302 (kredą) i dwie papierowe nalepki z tekstem niemieckim: 1. Tekst-informacja o artyście (maszynopis); 2. Tekst-informacja o obrazie z wymienionym tytułem Der Puppendoctor (druk) z katalogu aukcji D.A. Lempertza w roku 1955 (druk). Obraz był reprodukowany w „Tygodniku Ilustrowanym“ w roku 1877 (2 półrocze, nr 96, s. 264) jako Konsylium lekarskie. Drzeworyt do reprodukcji wg rysunku Streitta wykonał M.Kluczewski, odwracając kompozycję w stosunku do oryginału. Malarz; w latach 1856 - 1866 studiował w krakowskiej Szkole Sztuk Pięknych u W. Łuszczkiewicza i J. Matejki, a następnie w Akademii wiedeńskiej u E. Engertha. W 1871 r. osiadł na stałe w Monachium, dzieląc pracownię z przyjacielem, malarzem A. Kozakiewiczem. Malował wiele, a jego obrazy cieszyły się powodzeniem, sprzedawane przez Kunsthandlerów do Anglii i Ameryki. Z Monachium wyjeżdżał do Krakowa i na Węgry. Malował głównie sceny rodzajowe, pejzaże i portrety; we wcześniejszym okresie także obrazy historyczne."

Unidentified Artists

We have archived some older Polish images on HBC, but we do not know the names of the artists. Quite a few do not appear to have been attributed. We note some paintings of Polish nobels. A good example is a Polish nobel and sons about 1650. We note a portrait of Stanislaw Tenczynski in 1634. Neither of these portraits are attributed.

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