page_title: Stanisław Masłowski
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Stanisław Masłowski / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Stanisław Masłowski (1853-1926), The Horse statue in the entrance to Capitoline Hill, Rome,1904, watercolour painting, 32x43.5 cm
context_page_description: Stanisław Stefan Zygmunt Masłowski, born Stanislaw Stefan Zygmunt Ludgard Masłowski was a Polish painter of realistic style, the author of watercolor landscapes.
context_section_description: Masłowski's artistic talent occurred already at an early age. He received a silver medal in 1875 from the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, for his school drawings. "Masłowski – recalls Henryk Piątkowski (painter) – while still very young boy, as a student at the Warsaw School of Drawing (i.e. Wojciech Gerson's drawing school) marked his outstanding talent in the first creative gusts" – and adds, that – "he learned mostly not in school, but in the environment of Polish nature, which he felt and spoke with the mastery". These observations complements and confirms relation of his fellow Miłosz Kotarbinski, in which we can read of the "very distinctive in school, and not yet appreciated Stanisław Masłowski. He was already a naturally born impressionist. Studies on the plaster casts of classical sculpture he led in purely impressive mode, in which forgiving executives completely did not complain. With vividly colourful and scenic landscape studies of nature he overtook most ardent later Impressionists."
  The year 1875 brought in Masłowski's life the first images exhibited in the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, namely: "Owczarek" ("The Shepherd") and "Kozacy" ("Cossacks"), then – the first illustrations included in the "Kłosy" Weekly Magazine, and the first trip to Ukraine. Ukrainian topic had a strong influence on Masłowski in his youth. It was carrying parallel: blustering vigor and lyrical musing. That was the Ukraine, which Maslowski saw and began to enact in his studio compositions. It was unlike the painting of the noble-knight's and hunter's Ukraine by Juliusz Kossak, Józef Brandt and Józef Chełmoński. A numerous images of Ukrainian themes may be mentioned: "Odbicie branki" (Reflection from Captive – exhibited 1878), "Pożegnanie Kozaka" (Farewell Cossack – illustration, 1878), "Jarema's Duma" (1879), "Chłopcy w stepie" (Boys in the Steppe – illustration, 1879), "Noc" (Night – exhibited in 1880), "Tabun" (Herd of Horses, 1880), "Odpoczynek czumaka" (Chumak's Rest, 1880), "Wesele" (The Wedding, 1881), "Odpoczynek" (The Rest, 1882), and finally "Taniec Kozaków" (Cossacks Dance – Kozachok, 1883), which is a kind of closure and synthesis of the whole. At this, however, does not exhaust the subject matter and the topography of Masłowski's paintings created in atelier, in early stages of his work. It happens a Masovian village ("Na pastwisku" – en.: "On the Pasture", 1880), and even melodrama ("Niedola" – en.: "Misery", 1881), but still the Ukraine was the main emphasis of his contemporary work. Masłowski's studio painting of this period can not be reduced to a common denominator; his realism has a number of editions – closer to the romantic sentiments, or closer to the truth of nature. Generally speaking, Masłowski's way goes from linearity to ornamentation, from value to colour, from oil to watercolour, and in total – from atelier to plein air.
  The most interesting result of the Ukrainian and other Masłowski's expeditions were quite precursory studies and sketches from nature – watercolours, pencils, and oils, including "Trójka bałagulska" (a Three-Horse Carriage, National Museum, Kraków), "Studium konia" (Study of a Horse – ibid.), "Zima" (Winter – ibid.), "Cyganka" (Gypsy woman, 1877, formerly in Bohdan Wydżga collections), "Studium jamnika" (Study of Dachshund), "Szczeniaki" (Puppies – owned by the artist's family), "Studium psa" (Study of a Dog), "Głowy byków" (Bulls Heads – National Museum in Warsaw), "Oset" (Thistle, between 1876 and 1878, reproduced as a vignette in the "Sfinks" Monthly ecession magazine in 1909 and 1912). Their cognitive function rapidly transformed and expanded. One of the most interesting studies arose during a few days stay in the Gypsy camp behind the Warsaw-Praga Turnpike. But first fame, and even financial success brought him no pioneer "minor sketches" but "Duma Jaremy" (Jarema's Duma) and "Taniec Kozaków" (Cossacks Dance – Kozachok, reproduced in the booklet No 11 of "Album of Polish Painters" (Polish: "Album malarzy polskich", ed. Warsaw 1885).
  In 1884–1887 Stanisław Masłow
caption: Koń na Kapitolu (The Horse statue in the entrance to Capitoline Hill – Campidoglio), Rome, watercolor, 1904 (National Museum in Warsaw)
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