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Angel Playing an Instrument / Architectural Fragment

Stanislaw Wyspianski

Basic information

ID: Г-V-665/2а,б
Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Name: Angel Playing an Instrument / Architectural Fragment
Date of creation: 1889, 1883
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil
Dimensions: 19.9 x 16.3 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: religious architecture painting
Provenance: Collection of Lviv City Gallery

Information about author

Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Author in the original: Stanisław Mateusz Ignacy Wyspiański
Artist's lifetime: 1869–1907
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire
Biography: Stanislaw Wyspianski was born in 1869 in Krakow. He studied at the Jagiellonian University and Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He was a member of the Young Poland movement, and art editor of the weekly Życie (Life). Stanislaw Wyspianski is known as a playwright and poet, modernist painter, and designer. The artist died in November 1907. He was buried in Krakow.

Object description

a) The portrait represents a waist-length figure of a man (angel ?). His long hair is falling down on his shoulders. The defining features of the face are large and wide-open eyes, as well as full and stiff lips. He has a faraway look and his facial expression is distracted. The right hand is raised to the shoulder level; it is holding an object similar to a musical instrument. b) This is an architectural element that resembles a column in three-dimensional space.

Inscriptions

a) At the top there is an illegible inscription in Polish. b) At the right top there is an illegible inscription. On the right bottom side of the work there is the author monogram.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

Angel Playing an Instrument / Architectural Fragment

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