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Maciej Masłowski

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Maciej Masłowski and his wife Halina, during their visit to Girdwoyń family in Troki near Wilno, c. 1935

Maciej Masłowski (January 24, 1901 – August 17, 1976) was a Polish art historian.

Biography

Masłowski was born in Warsaw. He was a son of painter Stanisław Masłowski (1853–1926) and piano teacher Aniela born Ponikowska (1864–1940). After graduating from (Mickiewicz-Konopczyński School) in Warsaw, he studied at University of Warsaw, first history, and then art history. (His teacher was Zygmunt Batowski.)

Assembly of Fine Arts Section of Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Education, Warsaw, Poland, 1938, Maciej Masłowski 5th on the left[1]
Maciej Masłowski, aged 3 and his mother,[2] photograph of 1904
Maciej Masłowski at his office, Polish Museum, Schloss Rapperswil, Switzerland, the photograph of 1948
Maciej Masłowski, Schloss, Rapperswil, Polish Museum, Switzerland, July–August 1948
Maciej Masłowski (left) and Polish consul Stefan Płoński, Piazza di San Marco, Venice, August 1948

From 1931 to 1939 he worked in the Department of Fine Arts of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Public Education (Polish abbr.: WRiOP) and at the same time as the manager of Mobile Art Exhibition and organizer of the Summer Institutes of Folk Arts at Żabie on Hucul region — 1938 and in Zakopane on Podhale region — 1939. Since 1937, he was a delegate of the Polish Minister of Religious Affairs and Public Education to the Interministerial Committee on Folk Industry and Folk Art.

From 1939 to 1945 he was the artistic and scientific advisor to Society for the Protection of Folk Art in Warsaw. Between 1945 and 1946 he collaborated with the Polish National Institute of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1947-1949 he was a professor of College of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and in 1948-1949 - the chief of the Institute of the Dissemination of Fine Arts in Warsaw, later transformed into the Central Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions, and then into the Zachęta National Gallery of Art. In 1948, he has been Polish Division Commissioner for the Biennale in Venice, and then, in 1948-1949 - the manager of the Polish Museum in Rapperswil in Switzerland.[3] In the same year he was also commissioner of Polish Painting Retrospective Exhibition in Prague in Czechoslovakia. Between 1950 and 1951 he was research professor in the National Institute of Art in Warsaw (later transformed into the Art Institute of Polish Academy of Sciences).

During the communism oppression era - from 1951 - he gave up a regular job, which has not afterwards returned. Trying to survive, he undertook various commercial activities and cultivated research and literary work at home in Podkowa Leśna (where he lived permanently from 1945 until his death in 1976 in Wysokie Mazowieckie).

From 1933 he was married to Halina Klisiński. He had two children (Christine, born 1940 married Kahl, and Andrew, born 1937). He was buried in Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw ("Stare Powązki" - Old Powązki Cemetery) in the family tomb (section 11-1-7/8).

Major works

References

  • Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz: Maciej Masłowski (1901-1976), "Twórczość", 1976, of the Sept. the 30th;
  • Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz: Rozmowy o książkach (Conversations about Books), Warsaw 1968, ed. "Iskry" Publ., p. 331-334; and of the same author: Sąsiad z Kuklówki (Neighbour of Kuklówka), "Życie Warszawy", 1966, No 44 (of Feb. the 20-21st) p. 4; Zapomniane malarstwo (A Forgotten Painting), "Życie Warszawy", 1967, No 25 (of Jan. the 29-30th) p. 5; Książka trzydziestolecia (A Book of Thirty Years),"Życie Warszawy", 1974, No 173 (of Jul. the 21-22nd), p. 7; Maks, "Życie Warszawy", 1971, No 8 (of Jan the 10-11th), p. 5; Godebscy (Godebski Family), "Życie Warszawy", 1970 (of Aug. the 9-10th) p. 5;
  • Maciej Masłowski (1901-1976), "Tygodnik Powszechny", 1976, No 38 (1443, of Sept. the 19th). p. 3;
  • Maria Olszaniecka: Tej książki nie będziemy już czytać - wspomnienie o Macieju Masłowskim (This Book We Will Never Read - Memory of Maciej Masłowski), "Kultura", 1976, No 37 (of Sept. the 12th);
  • Beata Sowińska: Malarski żywot (Painter's Life), "Życie Warszawy", 1966 (of May the 21st), p. 3.
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