Zygmunt Waliszewski

Zygmunt Waliszewski ( born December 1, 1897 in Saint Petersburg, † October 5, 1936 in Kraków ) was a Polish painter.

Even in childhood he began to study painting and drawing in Tbilisi ( Georgia) at N. Sklifasowski and B. Vogel. At the age of 11 he showed his first paintings at a public exhibition.

During the First World War, he was incorporated into the Russian army. In Moscow he met the artists of the group "I Iskusstwa " (World of Art). He also visited the collections of French painting of Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov. In 1920 he moved to Poland. He studied painting in Kraków with Wojciech Weiss and Józef Pankiewicz. In 1924 he came to Paris and joined the Polish artist group " Kapiści " ( Paris Committee ) to. In Paris he contracted the incurable Winiwarter - Buerger's disease. He lost both legs. His arms were threatened. Nevertheless, he continued to paint. In 1931 he returned to Poland in 1933 he married. 1935-1936 he designed a ceiling painting for the Krakow Wawel Castle. In 1936 he designed the sets for even Pergo Leses opera " La Serva padrona ". Shortly thereafter, he died.

Waliszewski painted landscapes, nudes, portraits, and especially genre pictures as paraphrases of the works of old masters. Despite the deadly disease, he showed a beaming, garishly colored world. Despite the short life he left behind a rich oeuvre.

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• Hanna Bartnicka - Górska, Anna Prugar - Myslik: Zygmunt Waliszewski ( exhibition catalog), Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, 1999, ISBN 83-7100-124- X