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Post by Jaga on Jun 21, 2010 20:45:33 GMT -7
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Post by Jaga on Jun 21, 2010 20:48:06 GMT -7
By the way it seems that in order to be somebody it is good to have mixed origin. Look at Copernicus (German-Polish), Chopin (French-Polish), Mickiewicz (Lithuanian-Polish), Vladimir Hoffman (Czech-Polish).
Mixed blood helps to open our horizons!
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Post by tuftabis on Jun 22, 2010 1:29:03 GMT -7
By the way it seems that in order to be somebody it is good to have mixed origin. Look at Copernicus (German-Polish), Chopin (French-Polish), Mickiewicz (Lithuanian-Polish), Vladimir Hoffman (Czech-Polish). Mixed blood helps to open our horizons! I think this is a misconception, popular in immigration based countries   We would need to have a study if 'somebody-s' in mixed origin families form highest percentage than in the non-mixed society. Jaga, I thought Mickiewicz wife was of Polish Jews, not parents? He was born in part of Rzeczpospolita which was Lithuanian, but both his parents were Polish, he spoke and wrote in Polish and his national identity was Polish. Where is the Lithuanian origin? |
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Post by tuftabis on Jun 22, 2010 1:32:37 GMT -7
One of my favourites - "Angel, I will follow you' by Jacek Malczewski  Here are Polish masterpieces index and actual paintings artyzm.com/index.php |
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Post by justjohn on Jun 26, 2010 4:53:33 GMT -7
One of my favourites - "Angel, I will follow you' by Jacek Malczewski Here are Polish masterpieces index and actual paintings artyzm.com/index.phpTufta, Thank you for the link. I am enjoying it immensely. |
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Post by pieter on Jun 26, 2010 5:33:06 GMT -7
By the way it seems that in order to be somebody it is good to have mixed origin. Look at Copernicus (German-Polish), Chopin (French-Polish), Mickiewicz (Lithuanian-Polish), Vladimir Hoffman (Czech-Polish). Mixed blood helps to open our horizons! I hope so Jaga. Pieter (Dutch-Polish) |
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Post by pieter on Jun 26, 2010 5:39:26 GMT -7
 Wladyslaw Podkowinski Teodor Axentowicz |
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Post by indianamike on Jun 26, 2010 10:58:37 GMT -7
Does anyone know of a great painter by the name of Stanislaw Dabrowski, from Poland, who is now passed away.
I have one of his paintings, a Polish peasant wedding.
I am unable to find what this painting is worth for my insurance.
Can you help?
Mike
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Post by czerkawska on Oct 21, 2010 12:41:14 GMT -7
Many thanks for posting these beautiful pictures! Especially the Madonna. My great uncle was Polish artist Karol Kossak, his uncle was Wojciech, his grandfather was Juliusz - and I love the work of all of them, but especially Karol, who dedicated a number of his watercolours to me, when I went to Poland in the early 1970s. Karol himself loved Chelmonski's work, and I do too. And yes, I'm of 'mixed' parentage and a successful playwright and novelist. Nothing wrong at all with the melting pot, (and besides, the Poles and the Irish seem to have a lot in common!) but I don't suppose it really makes a difference!
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Post by Jaga on Oct 21, 2010 13:32:14 GMT -7
Mrs. Czerkawska, thanks for your contribution.
Welcome to the forum!
I lived in Krakow, they had a coffe-place called "Kossakowka" which was allegedly operated by Kossak's family also. Your family roots are very interesting. My father had some Kossak's work but my parents sold it when they had to pay for an apartment for us to live in.
Please, tell us more about your family and the pictures you have!
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Post by pieter on Oct 21, 2010 13:59:39 GMT -7
Catherine,
Welcome to the Forum.
Karol Kossak is a gifted Polish painter and drawer. His charicatural drawings of people are exellent cartoons, and he is a very talented realistic painter.
You are lucky to have met him since he died in 1975 in Ciechocinku.
Wojciech Kossak was a very traditional painter and Juliusz Kossak too. Portraits and militairy scenes! Very Polish painters if I analyse their historical paintings correctly?
Pieter
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