Władysław Ślewiński
Władysław Slewinski ( born June 1, 1856 ( other indication 1856) in Białynin at Mikołajów, † March 27, 1918 (other indication March 24, 1918 ) in Paris) was a Polish painter and founding member of the movement Młoda Polska.
Life
Slewinski came from a wealthy Polish landowner family and attended school in Radom. While an agricultural student, he also attended briefly the Warsaw Drawing School of Wojciech Gerson. Later he managed the maternal family Pilaszkowice near Lublin. Because of disputes with the Russian tax authorities and threatened expropriation, he fled to Paris in 1888. There he first lived together with the painter Zygmunt Andrychiewicz, who would become his first mentor. Slewinski studied at the Académie Colarossi, where he met Paul Gauguin. The painter and his art made a deep impression on Slewinski, as a result he decided to become an artist himself. He joined Gauguin, according to a common time in Paris, he followed him in 1889 to Pont- Aven and Le Pouldu in Brittany. In this time seascapes ( above all with the Breton cliffs ). 1891 Gauguin painted a portrait of Slewinski and gave it to him.
Slewinski presented in 1895 and 1896 in Paris at the Salon des Independants, and 1897 and 1898 at the Galerie Georges Thomas from. In 1898 he traveled to Spain. On a return trip from Poland to France he made in 1907 with his Russian wife Eugenia Szewcow for a few months in Munich station. There he came at Easter 1908 in contact with the painters January Verkade, Werefkin and Alexej Jawlensky. Latter he influenced picturesque prevail. From 1905 to 1910 he lived in Krakow, Poronin, Lviv and Warsaw. In 1908 he was appointed professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He left office a short time later down to open his own art school in the Polna Street in Warsaw. In 1910 he returned to France.
Work
The base of Ślewińskis work was the aesthetics of the synthetism ', which had been developed by Gauguin and the School of Pont -Aven. He painted symbolic landscapes that were exempt from narrative elements. He used synthetic lines and ornamental, flat brush strokes in his paintings, above all in intimate acting Still Life and Flowers Illustrations. His portraits and corresponding studies show close to notions of the artist group Les Nabis. More important than the use synthetistischer elements seems Slewinski the search and display of the simplicity of such landscapes to have been that were largely untouched by modern life. The colored base of his works were earth tones.
His paintings are in many public collections including the National Museum in Krakow and Warsaw.
2008 images were in Germany for 100 years first shown by him in the castle Murnau again.