"still Life With Violin" Jan Or Jean Kwiatkowski (1894 - 1971)

KWIATKOWSKI Jean Born July 21, 1894 or 1897 in Halan. Died January 21, 1971 in Paris. twentieth century. Active in France. Polish. Painter of still lifes, landscapes. Son of a military doctor, from school, at the age of sixteen, he made political agitation against the occupation of Poland by the Tsarist troops. He was deported to Siberia, from which he escaped in 1910, passing from Russia to Warsaw, then to Vienna and Berlin, finally arriving in Paris in 1911. He enlisted for the war, in the French armies, the allies also fighting for the independence of Poland. Between the wars, he worked in fashion design, while beginning to paint around 1930 at the Colarossi and Grande Chau-mière academies in Paris. In 1938, he exhibited two still lifes at the Salon des Indépendants which were noticed by Albert Marquet. I took part in numerous collective exhibitions, among which: 1964 Les Primitifs d'Aujourd'hui at the Charpentier gallery in Paris; 1967 Henri Rousseau Museum of Naive Art in Laval; 1967 Autumn Salons and Comparisons in Paris; 1968 House of Culture in Caen; also appearing every year at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris, of which he had been a member since 1938. He showed his works in personal exhibitions: from 1948 to 1968 retrospective exhibition at the Musée d'Art naïf Henri Rousseau in Laval; 1956, 1962, 1965 in Paris. After a few still lifes, he then became, calmly through his love of nature and painting, this poet of serene landscapes, described with tenderness by small touches of delicate and vaporous tones, which Anatole Jakovsky rightly compared to Francis Jammes, also describing him as the “Bonnard of our naïve people”. BJ. B. BIBLIOGR. : Henry Certigny, Anatole Jakovsky: Jean Kwiatkow-ski, Fra Angelico de Montparnasse, Plon, Paris, 1966 - Michel Hoog, Jean P. Bouvet, Anatole Jakovsky: Catalog of the retrospective exhibition Jean Kwiatkowski, Museum of Naïve Art, Henri Rousseau, Laval, 1968. MUSEUMS: LAVaL (Mus. d'Art naïve Henri Rouseau) - PaRis (Mus. Nat. d'Art Mod.) - SAINT-ÉTIENNE. Oil on canvas signed lower left and dated 1959 Format: 50 x 60 cm With frame: 62 x 72 cm