#Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

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Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz NOCTURNAL LANDSCAPE (1922)

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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Polish, 1885-1939)

Witkiewicz was reared at the family home in Zakopane. In accordance with his father's antipathy to the "servitude of the school," he was home-schooled and encouraged to develop his talents across a range of creative fields. Against his fathers wishes he studied at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts with Józef Mehoffer and Jan Stanisławski.

Witkiewicz was close friends with composer Karol Szymanowski and, from childhood, with Bronisław Malinowski and Zofia Romer. Romer was romantically linked to both Bronisław Malinowski and Witkiewicz. He had a tumultuous affair with prominent actress Irena Solska who according to Anna Micińska is represented as the heroine Akne Montecalfi in his first novel, The 622 Downfalls of Bungo or The Demonic Woman, 1911. According to Micińska he also represented himself as the character Bungo and Malinowski as the Duke of Nevermore. The unfinished novel, which was not published until 1972, also describes erotic encounters between Bungo and the Duke of Nevermore. Taught wet plate photography by his father, it was during this period that he also began producing the intimate portrait photography for which he is known; producing striking portraits of his circle in Zakopane and many self-portraits.

In 1914 following a crisis in Witkiewicz's personal life due to the suicide of his fiancée Jadwiga Janczewska, for which he blamed himself, he was invited by Malinowski to act as draftsman and photographer on his anthropological expedition to the then Territory of Papua, by way of Ceylon and Australia. The venture was interrupted by the onset of World War I. After quarrelling with Malinowski in Australia, Witkiewicz who was by birth a subject of the Russian Empire, travelled to St Petersburg (then Petrograd) from Sydney and was commissioned as an officer in the Pavlovsky Regiment of the Imperial Russian Army. His ailing father, a Polish patriot, was deeply grieved by his son's decision and died in 1915 without seeing him again.

In July 1916 he was seriously wounded in the battle on Stokhid River in what is now Ukraine and was evacuated to St Petersburg where he witnessed the Russian Revolution. He claimed that he worked out his philosophical principles during an artillery barrage, and that when the Revolution broke out he was elected political commissar of his regiment. His later works would show his fear of social revolution and foreign invasion, often couched in absurdist language.

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Stanislaw Witkiewicz ( Polish 1851-1915)

Mgła wiosenna (1897) Springtime Fog

(National Museum, Cracow, Poland)

Oil on canvas; 60.5 x 76 cm.

 

Stanisław Witkiewicz was a Polish painter, architect, writer and art theoretician. He was born in the Lithuanian village of Pašiaušė in Samogitia, at that time, in the partitioned Polish-Lithuanian lands ruled by the Russian Empire. Witkiewicz studied in Saint Petersburg, 1869–71, then in Munich, 1872–75. He created the Zakopane Style (also known as Witkiewicz Style in architecture. He was strongly associated with Zakopane and promoted it in the art community.

 

Stanislaw Witkiewicz often said that it is quite insignificant if a canvas shows a country wench picking turnips or Zamojski at Byczyna, since prime importance is ascribed not to "what" but to "how". "The recognition of the artistic element as the most significant component of art", whose intention was to show true reality, unadorned and devoid of costume, opposed the Jan Matejko version of historicism. It gradually led to the emancipation of art from national and ideological duties, and the comprehension of the whole realm as completely independent and autonomous.

 

His son, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, became a famous painter, playwright, novelist and philosopher, also known (from the conflation of his surname and middle name) by the mononymous pseudonym "Witkacy." Witkiewicz had strong views against formal education: "school is completely at odds with the psychological make-up of human beings". He applied this principle in his son's upbringing and was disappointed when the 20-year-old Witkacy chose to enroll at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.

 

In 1908, suffering from tuberculosis, the elder Witkiewicz left his family in Zakopane and relocated to Lovranno, a fashionable resort in what was then Austria-Hungary, which today is in Croatia. He died there in 1915.

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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Polish,1885-1939)

Australian landscape, 1918

pastel, cardboard, chalk stick, charcoal  

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Man has a certain insatiability for existence itself, a primordial insatiability, tied to the inescapable fact of selfhood, which I call metaphysical. Unless it is stamped out, sated through grand emotions, work, creativity, power, and so on, it can only be smothered by narcotics.

[...] So I have called the aforementioned insatiability a metaphysical feeling as it is rooted in the opposition between every individual’s infinite wholeness of Existence and the delimitations imposed by Time and Space. Although this insatiability appears in the most diverse constellations with other states and emotions to create various amalgams, it is grounded in the unity of our “I,” our selfhood. This insatiability might also act as a stimulant for some activities and lend a certain luster to other activities that are, for the most part, unrelated. Should this sensation overwhelm a person’s mind, it could lead to work of a religious, artistic, or philosophical nature, but if it remains negligible in a person's mind, it might cause his actions to take a metaphysical bent, or merely lend his inner life a special glow.

[...] Thus I declare that all narcotics [...] to some degree serve to appease an individual’s limitations, the feelings of insatiability and longing produced by the very essence of Being, only to dull these states, and then annihilate them entirely. Religion, art, and philosophy operate in a similar fashion, and though they initially express various degrees of metaphysical perturbation, they ultimately temper metaphysical sensations with veils of constructs and systems, art with artistic forms, and philosophy with conceptual systems. Then the horror of the individual’s isolation in meaningless Being is cushioned by society, it withers and vanishes, in step with the unease that originally engendered it.

Narcotics, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

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Przerażenie wariata = The Madman’s Terror Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Polish; 1885–1939) 1931 Toned gelatin silver print Sotheby’s, New York

Title, date, and annotation “Zakopane” in Polish in pencil on the reverse

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Artist; Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

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Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy) | Self-Portrait, 1912-1914

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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, aka Witkacy   The Temptation of St Anthony    1921-22