Stanisław Wyspiański

Stanisław Wyspiański ( born January 15, 1869 in Krakow, † November 28, 1907 ) was a Polish artist and member of the movement " Young Poland ".

During a stay in Paris, he was influenced by the Art Nouveau, but also by the encounter with artists from the circle around Paul Gauguin. He was also probably made ​​about Stanisław Przybyszewski acquainted with the painting of the Norwegian Edvard Munch.

Wyspiański worked as a painter and draftsman, designing ornaments, stage decorations and stained glass windows. The latter include, for example, the window of the Franciscan Church in Krakow. He also wrote several plays, in which he processed themes from mythology and legends, but also from the Polish history.

The works Wyspiański can be found today in many Polish museums, including the Wyspiański Museum in Krakow.

Wesele

His best known work is " Night Drive " ( wedding) of 1901. This was based on the above actually took place in the wedding of his friend Lucjan Rydel with a farmer's daughter from a village near Krakow and called for its premiere a scandal out. 1973 " Night Drive " was filmed by Andrzej Wajda. The drama in three acts was translated in 1976 by Henryk Bereska and 1992 by Karl Dedecius.

In the first act, the simple farmers meet in the peasant's hut with the artists from the Krakow Bohème. In the second act suddenly appear between the wedding guests historical figures from the past in Poland, making a sarcastic statement on the presence, among others the court jester of the Polish kings Stańczyk. The host calls for a popular uprising - but the village boy loses the golden magic horn. At the end of Act 3 in a wrapped straw appears rosebush with a violin in his hand - an ambiguous symbol shape - which leads the wedding guests to the hypnotic dance.

Quite unexpectedly, was the piece that was originally intended for the closest circle of friends from the Krakow Bohème, one of the major dramas of Polish literature. The virtuoso dialogues conducted became a source are still commonly used phrases. The very first words: " Coz tam, panie, w polityce? ? Chińcyki trzymają się mocno " ( Czepiec: " What's in politics, the Chinese stands bravely "? ! ) Are often cited.

Works (selection)

Plays

  • Varsovia (German: Warschauerin - a fight song of the insurgents, 1898)
  • Weimar in 1829 (fragment, 1904)
  • Night Drive (English: Wedding, 1901)
  • The Wedding: drama in three acts. Translated from the Polish and edited by Karl Dedecius, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1992 ISBN 3-518-40499-7
  • The wedding: Drama in 3 acts. From d Pol. Übers and resealing of Henryk Bereska. With e essay by Tadeusz Boy - Żeleński. With color photos from the movie " The Wedding" by Andrzej Wajda. Leipzig: Reclam 1977
  • Noc listopadowa (German: November Eight, 1904)
  • Acropolis (1904 )
  • Skałka (German: royal tomb at Rock, 1907)

Church window (glass window)

  • Designs for the stained glass windows of Krakow's Franciscan Church
  • Designs for glass windows, the Wyspiański Pavilion 2000 in Cracow on Allerheiligenplatz (built in 2007, designed by Piotr Ostrowski ) are seen, shown are the St. Stanislaus, St. Casimir and Henry II of Silesia

Glass window in the choir of the Krakow Wyspianski Franciscan Church

Glass window in the pavilion Wyspianski 2000 ( St. Casimir )

Glass window in the pavilion Wyspianski 2000 ( St. Stanislaus, St. Casimir and Henry II of Silesia)

Museums and monuments

  • In Szołayski house in the Kanonicza Street 9 in Krakow found since November 28, 1983 the Wyspiański Museum of Krakow, as a branch of Krakow's National Museum.
  • On Wszystkich Swietych place in Krakow 2007 Wyspiański Pavilion was unveiled in 2000, where three are issued by Wyspiański glass windows.
  • 1996 was the 50th anniversary of the Austrian- Polish Society on the facade of the Hotel Northern Railway (since 2008 Austria Classic Hotel Wien ) on the Prater Road 72 in Vienna's Leopoldstadt unveiled a plaque for Stanisław Wyspiański that at Wyspiański 's connection to the Viennese Secession and his stay Hotel Nord railway would remember in the summer of 1904, where Wyspiański his dramatic fragment " Weimar 1829 " authored.
  • Opposite the main entrance of the National Museum in Krakow Aleja 3 Maja Street, stands a monument to Stanisław Wyspiański, unveiled on 28 November 1982.
  • The year 2007 was proclaimed by the Polish Sejm for " Wyspiański year."

Film

  • Stanisław Wyspiański at the Internet Movie Database (English)
  • Wesele at the Internet Movie Database (English)
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