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- Author Konstanty Laszczka (1865—1956)
- Date of production 1902
- Dimensions height: 50 cm, length: 40 cm, width: 18 cm
- Author's designation signature and date in the bottom right corner: Mandze | K Laszczka | 1902
- ID no. MNK-II-rz-708
- Museum The National Museum in Kraków
- Branch Main Building
- Gallery 20th-Century Polish Art
- Subjects sculpted, famous people
- Technique casting
- Material bronze
- Acquired date donated by Feliks Jasieński in 1920
- Object copyright The National Museum in Kraków
- Digital images copyright © all rights reserved, NMK
- Digitalisation RDW MIC, Małopolska's Virtual Museums project
- Tags Art Nouveau , sculpture , portrait , Japan , bust , Feliks Manggha Jasieński , 3D , 3D plus , audiodescription , © all rights reserved
Feliks Jasieński (1861—1929), pseudonym “Manggha”, the outstanding connoisseur of art, patron and collector; he was broadly educated and talented musically. He exerted a considerable influence on the art culture of Kraków at the turn of the 20th century by his activity in the field of arts, his views, publications, and also by making the gathered collections available, including the rich collection of Japanese and Western European drawings and utilitarian objects from the Far East.
more Feliks Jasieński (1861–1929), pseudonym “Manggha”, the outstanding connoisseur of art, patron and collector; he was broadly educated and talented musically. He exerted a considerable influence on the art culture of Kraków at the turn of the 20th century by his activity in the field of arts, his views, publications, and also by making the gathered collections available, including the rich collection of Japanese and Western European drawings and utilitarian objects from the Far East.
Laszczka sculpted Manggha’s head emerging from a porous block of sculpted material. This compositional formula showing the influence of Auguste Rodin’s (1840–1917) symbolic art, present in many other works by the Polish artist, among others in Zrozpaczona [In Despair], was not only a stylistic device. It was a metaphor for a man “embroiled” in the existence and trying to free himself from his own fate.
A slightly bent, serious, thoughtful face of the expert on art defines him as an outstanding person belonging to the intellectual elite of the epoch. The stylistics of the work also bring associations with the influence of French Impressionism. The form shaped by the sensitive touch of hands in the soft material wear traces of every artist’s gesture leaving the rough surface, susceptible to light’s play.
A painting portrait of Feliks Jasieński by Jacek Malczewski is also exhibited in the Gallery of 20th Century Polish Art.
Elaborated by Wacława Milewska (The National Museum in Kraków), © all rights reserved
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