Contemporary Foreign Painting at the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1861–1914)
Dariusz Konstantynów
d.konstantynow@ug.edu.plInstitute of Art History, University of Gdansk (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2064-5677
Abstract
The article constitutes an attempt at an analysis of the exhibitions of foreign painting held at the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw from the first year of its existence (1861) to the outbreak of the First World War. A comprehensive search in the Warsaw press of the time made it possible to clarify and supplement Janina Wiercińska’s findings regarding the foreign painters and works presented at the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, to describe the circumstances of these works’ arrival in Warsaw and the mechanisms and criteria for the selection of foreign paintings applied by the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, as well as to present the assessment of this part of the Society’s exhibition activities by critics and publicists of the time.
Keywords:
Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw, artistic life in Warsaw in the 19th century, art exhibitions, exhibitions of foreign painting, trade in artworks, art criticismReferences
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Dariusz Konstantynówd.konstantynow@ug.edu.pl
Institute of Art History, University of Gdansk Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2064-5677
Dariusz Konstantynów is a historian of art, an employee of the Institute of Art History at the University of Gdańsk. His research focuses on the history of artistic life in Poland in the 19th and early 20th century, as well as on the connections linking visual arts with politics and ideology.
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