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Володислав Федорович та Артур Ґротґер. Забуті сторінки однієї приязні

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Nabytovych I.

Studia Polsko-Ukraińskie

2019

vol. 6

115-134

The article explores the history of the relationship of Volodyslav Fedorovych and Artur Grottger, an almost forgotten page of Ukrainian-Polish intercultural dialogue of the last quarter of the nineteen century. Their friendship undoubtedly had an influence on both of their lives, and it remains an important demonstration of Ukrainian-Polish intercultural and interpersonal dialogue on the border of the two cultures of the two nations. The first of the two aforementioned men was a famous Ukrainian philanthropist, the third head of Prosvita society, a member of the Polish circle in the lower house of the Viennese Parliament. Artur Grottger died at the age of thirty; however, he became a symbol of Polish Romanticism and a champion of the Polish rebellion in January 1863. Volodyslav Fedorovych spent two years in the capital of the Habsburg Monarchy, studying in a privileged educational institution for children of noble families – Collegium Theresianum. At the same time, Volodyslav attended lectures at the University of Vienna. Vienna, one of the cultural capitals of Europe, awakened his interest in paintings and art in general. In Vienna, he met the famous Polish painter Artur Grottger, who was to introduce him later to the Ukrainian painter Kornylo Ustyanovych. Later on, Ustyanovych will become a cult figure in Galicia. The article recounts a story of his cousin Alexandra. Volodyslav was in love with her. She died very young, but Grottger managed to draw a portrait of her.

Obraz Artura Grottgera „Modlitwa konfederatów barskich przed bitwą” (pod Lanckoroną?): historia, literatura, ogląd

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Bryl M.

Artium Quaestiones

2020

issue 1

369-400

The subject of the paper is a painting by Artur Grottger, which has not yet been the subject of close art historical analysis, hindered by the complicated history of the painting as a material object: from its creation (1861–63) and being exhibited in Vienesse Kunstverein in 1864 (titled Das Gebet vor der Schlacht. Episode aus der vergangenen Zeit in Polen), via its appearances and disappearances in the arena of history, till its present status of an object in a private collection, whichlimits its accessibility. The reconstruction of the process of constituting its present title (The Bar Confederates Pray Before the Battle of Lanckorona), reveals the problematic status of the reference to the specific battle fought during the Bar Confederation (1768–1772). The confrontation of the pictorial presentation with a real course of the battle of Lanckorona (23 May 1771) proves that it was not Grottger’s imperative to reconstruct in a probabilistic manner neither the place nor the course of the specific historical event. The analysis of the common for the artist and its public cultural competence, whose basis during that epoch was literature, does not yield an unequivocal identification of specific historical figures or literary motifs as references for the painting. This probabilism of heteronomous, historical and literary references, increases the autonomy of Grottger’s painting as a visual medium. Following the tenet of art historical hermeneutics that it is not contextual references but the pictorial potential activated by the artist that defines the actual status of the represented event, the subject of the next part of the text is the vision-oriented logic of the painting. The main reference is Michael Brötje’s theory, according to which the surface of the painting (not the material, covered with paint, picture plane – die Flache – but immaterial, invisible instance – die Ebene) constitutes the ultimate instance for both represented reality, which it transcends and whose boundaries it establishes, and for the spectator, who confronts this reality in the process of viewing with the pictorial surface and its boundaries. In the process of viewing, which consists in the interaction between structural properties of the painting and the postulated by the viewer relating to the surface, the spectator experiences, as his or her own, the truth about the confederates’ origin, their connection with nature, their religiosity, rootedness in the motherland, death as their destiny, and their devotion to the ultimate absolute instance. The very experience, residing in the medium, ultimately determines the status of the heteronomous in relation to the painting, historical and literary references.

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Володислав Федорович та Артур Ґротґер. Забуті сторінки однієї приязні

Obraz Artura Grottgera „Modlitwa konfederatów barskich przed bitwą” (pod Lanckoroną?): historia, literatura, ogląd