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| Self Portrait 1910 |
Feliks Michał Wygrzywalski (1875 Premysyl - 1944 Rzeszow) was a 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.
This is part 1 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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| 1886 Gypsy fortune-telling from cards oil on canvas 73.5 x 53 cm |
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| 1894 The General Exhibition of Polish Art in Lviv lithographic poster National Museum in Krakow |
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| 1898 Apotheosis of Mickiewicz watercolour National Museum in Krakow |
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| 1898-1902 Reflections oil on panel National Museum in Krakow |
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| 1902 Fiddler pencil and white chalk on paper 38 x 53 cm |
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| 1904 The rise of songs gouache and charcoal on cardboard National Museum in Warsaw |
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| 1905 Card players oil on panel 28 x 44.5 cm |
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| 1905 Portrait of a man oil on canvas 67 x 38.5 cm |
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| c1905 Venetian Masovian Museum, Płock |
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| after 1906 Fishing on the Nile Regional Museum in Torun |
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| 1906 Capri oil on board 19.7 x 34.9 cm |
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| 1907 Tree on the edge oil on panel 17 x 28 cm |
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| 1907 Wind in the Egyptian desert. Hamsin oil on plywood 50 x 70 cm |
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| 1908 A cart in front of the inn oil on canvas 54 x 85.5 cm |
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| 1908 Coastal rocks oil on panel 17 x 28 cm |
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| 1908 Pageant watercolour, gouache and ink on cardboard |
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| Mercury - Hermes (Self Portrait) 1910 pastel & distemper on paper 75 x 82 cm © Mazovian Museum, Plock, Poland / Bridgeman Images |
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| 1911 Lago di Ninfa National Museum in Wrocław |
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| 1912 Street after the rain, Rostov oil 22 x 31.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1913 Portrait of a man pastel on paper 8.9 x 7.8 cm |
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| 1914 Athena oil on plywood 58 x 49 cm |
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| 1914 Pulling a boat (self-portrait) oil on canvas 53 x 70 cm |
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| 1914-18 Portrait of Yushchenko's Don Cossack oil on plywood 32 x 45 cm |
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| c1915 Fishermen from Naples National Museum in Kraków |
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| 1917 Charon's boat oil on lined canvas 62.5 x 93 cm |
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| 1918 Carpet seller oil on plywood 32 x 45.5 cm |
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| 1918 In the mine oil on plywood 36.5 x 50.5 cm |
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| 1918 Rest of the fishermen watercolour and gouache on paper 44.2 x 64 cm |
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| 1919 Constantinople (Istanbul) oil on plywood 22.5 x 31.5 cm |
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| 1919 Pipe smokers in Constantinople watercolour on cardboard 47 x 58 cm |
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| 1920 A fisherman repairing nets watercolour on paper 60 x 80 cm |
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| 1920 Street Musicians oil on canvas 51.2 x 66.2 cm |
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| c1920 Gypsy Girl oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| 1922 Fishermen oil on canvas 48 x 90 cm |
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| 1922 Heeled oil on canvas 56 x 77 cm Private Collection |
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| 1922 Landscape oil on cardboard 22 x 37 cm |
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| 1922 Lola pastel on cardboard 61.5 x 44.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1922 Mermaids oil on canvas 98 x 128 cm |
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| 1922 Seascape with fishermen oil on canvas 48 x 92 cm |
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| c1922 A fisherman pulling a net out of the sea oil on canvas 61 x 81.5 cm |
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