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| Self-portrait with a palette by the sea and a port National Museum in Warsaw |
Polish painter; remembered primarily for his Orientalist scenes and portraits. He also created a significant number of nudes. Thanks to a scholarship from the Malinowski Foundation, he was able to study at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich from 1893 to 1898. This was followed by some time at the Académie Julian in Paris and a study trip to Italy.
In 1900, he decided to settle in Rome and married a local woman named Rosa Imassa. His studies there consisted largely of copying the Old Masters, but he also created landscapes and nudes. Later, he provided illustrations for the Polish travel magazine, Wedrowiec (The Wanderer), as well as magazines in Germany and Russia.
In 1906, he visited Egypt, creating numerous paintings and sketches for later use. When he came back to Poland in 1908, he lived in Lwów, where he had been commissioned to paint murals at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He also did some stage designs. During Worls War I, he moved to Rostov-on-Don and became a drawing professor. He returned to Lwów when the war was over.
He was a frequent participant in exhibitions, but his first personal showing came only in 1932, at the local "Society of Friends of the Fine Arts". During this period, his major work was a series of fourteen paintings, depicting the history of dance, for the sanatorium at the health resort in Krynica-Zdrój. For most of his later life, he maintained his own art salon in Lwów called, in German, "Kunstaustellung" (art exhibit). During the post-war depression, many upper-class people sold their paintings there; often entire collections.
In July 1944, at the approach of the Red Army, he was forced to flee Lwów, leaving all of his possessions behind. He found refuge at a tenement house in Rzeszów, but died only a few months later, from a stroke; possibly the result of an injury he suffered while fleeing. He was buried at the local cemetery, but his grave has not survived.
His works may be seen at numerous museums throughout Poland and Ukraine. In 2012, the city of Lódz organised an exhibition called "Between Capri and Lviv - painting travels by Feliks Michał Wygrzywalski." The following year, the National Maritime Museum, Gdansk, presented some of his works as part of a series on Polish artists and the sea.
For earlier works see parts 1 - 5 also. This is part 5 of a 5-part series on the works of Feliks Michał Wygrzywalski:
Note: Wygrzywalski often painted variations of a painting that look very similar but have minor differences.
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| n.d. Pulling the Nets oil on canvas 56 x 77 cm |
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| n.d. Pulling the Nets oil on canvas 85.5 x 100.8 cm |
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| n.d. Pulling the Nets oil on cardboard 54 x 78 cm |
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| n.d. Pulling the Nets oil on plywood 36 x 51 cm |
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| n.d. Pulling the Nets oil on canvas 55 x 74 cm |
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| n.d. Repairing the Carpet oil on canvas 54.5 x 75 cm |
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| n.d. Roaming Musicians watercolour on paper 47 x 67 cm |
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| n.d. Rocks at Capri Island oil on plywood 44 x 59 cm |
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| n.d. Sunset in Rome Masovian Museum, Płock |
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| n.d. Sunny Day oil on canvas 50 x 70 cm |
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| n.d. Spanish woman oil on canvas 50 x 70 cm |
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| n.d. Senussi Arabs praying oil on canvas 55 x 75 cm |
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| n.d. Self-Portrait with Harem oil on cardboard 51 x 70 cm |
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| n.d. Self-portrait with a string of pearls oil on canvas 47.5 x 68 cm |
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| n.d. Self-Portrait with a cigarette watercolour and gouache on paper 61.5 x 86 cm |
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| n.d. Self-Portrait outdoors oil on canvas 77 x 86 cm |
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| n.d. Self-Portrait as a Carpet Seller pastel on paper 50 x 35 cm |
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| n.d. Self-Portrait against the background of the sea oil on canvas 50 x 69 cm |
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| n.d. The Rug Weavers oil on canvas 54 x 74 cm |
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| n.d. The Rug Weavers oil on canvas 53 x 73 cm |
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| n.d. The Rug Weavers oil on canvas 25.5 x 50 cm |
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| n.d. The last glows, rocks on Capri oil on plywood 44 x 59 cm |
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| n.d. The entrance to the City oil on panel 40 x 61 cm |
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| n.d. The carpet dealers (details not found) |
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| n.d. The Carpet Dealer oil on wood panel 34.5 x 49 cm |
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| n.d. Temptation? pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper 13.8 x 24 cm |
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| n.d. The Temptation of St. Anthony oil on canvas 90 x 120 cm |
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| n.d. The Venetian fisherman oil on canvas 55.5 x 75.5 cm |
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| n.d. Three fishermen pulling a net oil on canvas 54 x 78 cm |
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| n.d. Three fishermen pulling a net oil on board 35.5 x 48 cm |
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| n.d. To Mohammedan Paradise oil on cardboard 50 x 70 cm |
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| n.d. Vintage oil on canvas 49 x 80 cm |
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| n.d. Waves on Capri oil on panel 34.5 x 50.5 cm |
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| n.d. Wogrodach Harem oil on canvas laid down on board 49 x 68.7 cm |
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| n.d. Woman on the terrace watercolour on cardboard 63 x 45.5 cm |
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| n.d. Young woman with Fan and red headscarf oil on canvas 50 x 70.5 cm |
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