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Pantaleon Szyndler – the discoverer of Cyprian Norwid
Abstract
For the admirers of works by Cyprian Norwid and Pantaleon Szyndler, as well as for the researchers of their legacy, it may prove valuable to reflect on the reception of two portraits of Norwid by Szyndler. Their national reception in the 1880s, as well as at the beginning of the 20th ury, is intertwined with he reception of the figure and work of the author of Quidam is “not-so-late grandchildren”, as well as with he fate of the artist who, by immortalising Norwid on canvas twice just a few years before his death, not only provided an extremely poignant image of the poet in the last years of his life, but above all created a work of extraordinary artistic value. In this article, the author cites a number of statements on the two portraits of Norwid that were appreciated by the Polish ublic before Norwid’s actual work was “discovered”. In particular, Portret Cypriana Norwida [Portrait of Cyprian Norwid] (1882) became a significant source of the unparalleled recognition Szyndler enjoyed. After the artist’s death 905, he was described not only as “an excellent expert in painting the human body, especially women”, or as a painter whose paintings “enjoyed great critical acclaim for the warm colouring inherent in them”, but “the plasticity of his portraits, of which the portrait of Cyprian Norwid is one of the best” was emphasised.
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Cyprian Norwid, Pantaleon Szyndler, Wiktor Gomulicki, portrait, Polish artDetails
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