Walk: Monday errands
Distance: 3.5
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Julian Fałat (Polish, 1853-1929) , Winter Landscape with River and Bird, 1913, oil on canvas, National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. |
Ciwt is so steeped in the art and artists she is steeped in she forgets she has never encountered great artists and works from other countries. Until she more or less stumbles on them in her travels. Like this incredible painting that utterly captures the clear, cold, silent solitude of winter.
Winter in rugged, river filled Poland to be exact. It was painted by one of Poland's foremost landscapists and champion of his beloved Poland and Polish art, Julian Falat. After literally traveling around the world from his homeland (even briefly to San Francisco) and accepting an invitation from future German emperor Wilhelm II to serve as court painter in Berlin (1886-1895), he returned wholeheartedly to Poland. There he became director of the Krakow School of Fine Arts where he had studied, and painted prolifically, concentrating on hunting scenes, portraits, travel observations, and most especially Polish landscapes.
Fałat declared: "Polish art ought to convey our history and beliefs, our good qualities and our defects; it must be the quintessence of our soil, our sky, our ideals."[1]
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Julian Falat, Salf Portrail, 1896, o/c |
Fałat died in Bystra Śląska on 9 July 1929. A Polish museum, the Fałatówka, is devoted to him.
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