Pankiewicz, Jozef (1866-1940) - 1908 Concarneau Harbor (Private Collection)
Oil on canvas; 54 x 64 cm.
Józef Pankiewicz (November 29, 1866 - July 4, 1940) was a Polish painter, graphic artist, and pedagogue.
Pankiewicz was born at Lublin. He studied under Wojciech Gerson and Alexander Kamiński. He travelled to Saint Petersburg with Władysław Podkowiński after winning a scholarship to the Imperial Academy of Arts there. In 1889, both artists left for Paris.
Founder of Polish Colorism deriving from postimpressionism. In France he was a friend of Pierre Bonnard and strongly influenced by his art. Then he dropped this course for experimenting with fauvism during stay in Spain.
Kapists or KPists (Polish: Kapiści, from KP, the Polish acronym for the Paris Committee), also known as the Colorists, were a group of Polish painters of 1930s who dominated the Polish artistic landscape of the epoch. Contrary to Polish romanticist traditions, the Kapists underlined the independence of art from any historical tradition, symbolism or influences of literature and history. They were formed around Józef Pankiewicz and were under strong influence of the French Post-Impressionists.
The name of the movement was derived from the full name of the so-called Paris Committee, or Paris Committee of Relief for Students Leaving for Artistic Studies in France. Apart from Pankiewicz, among the best-known Kapists were Jan Cybis, Józef Czapski, Józef Jarema, Artur Nacht-Samborski, Piotr Potworowski, Hanna Rudzka and Zygmunt Waliszewski.
Pankiewicz, Jozef (1866-1940) - 1908 Concarneau Harbor (Private Collection)
Oil on canvas; 54 x 64 cm.
Józef Pankiewicz (November 29, 1866 - July 4, 1940) was a Polish painter, graphic artist, and pedagogue.
Pankiewicz was born at Lublin. He studied under Wojciech Gerson and Alexander Kamiński. He travelled to Saint Petersburg with Władysław Podkowiński after winning a scholarship to the Imperial Academy of Arts there. In 1889, both artists left for Paris.
Founder of Polish Colorism deriving from postimpressionism. In France he was a friend of Pierre Bonnard and strongly influenced by his art. Then he dropped this course for experimenting with fauvism during stay in Spain.
Kapists or KPists (Polish: Kapiści, from KP, the Polish acronym for the Paris Committee), also known as the Colorists, were a group of Polish painters of 1930s who dominated the Polish artistic landscape of the epoch. Contrary to Polish romanticist traditions, the Kapists underlined the independence of art from any historical tradition, symbolism or influences of literature and history. They were formed around Józef Pankiewicz and were under strong influence of the French Post-Impressionists.
The name of the movement was derived from the full name of the so-called Paris Committee, or Paris Committee of Relief for Students Leaving for Artistic Studies in France. Apart from Pankiewicz, among the best-known Kapists were Jan Cybis, Józef Czapski, Józef Jarema, Artur Nacht-Samborski, Piotr Potworowski, Hanna Rudzka and Zygmunt Waliszewski.