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STANISLAW IGNACY WITKIEWICZ. Tadeus Langier, Zakopane

Tadeus Langier, Zakopane. Artist: Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Polish, Warsaw 1885-1939 Jeziory). Dimensions: Image: 12.6 x 17.6 cm (4 15/16 x 6 15/16 in.) Mount: 17.4 x 23.5 cm (6 7/8 x 9 1/4 in.). Date: 1912-13. Witkiewicz is a legendary figure in Polish cultural history not only for his multifaceted talent but also for his bohemian lifestyle and eccentric personality. A prolific painter and photographer, dramatist, and philosopher, he made hundreds of self-portraits, sketches, paintings, and studies of friends characterized by a searing self-scrutiny and existential anguish. Taken with a view camera-its lens extended by a drainpipe-this portrait of his colleague Tadeusz Langier is characteristic of the searching photographic studies he made between 1912 and 1914, a period culminating in the suicide of his fiancée. Witkiewicz himself took his own life on the eve of World War II, the day the Red Army invaded eastern Poland.
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Tadeus Langier, Zakopane
Caption:
Tadeus Langier, Zakopane. Artist: Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Polish, Warsaw 1885-1939 Jeziory). Dimensions: Image: 12.6 x 17.6 cm (4 15/16 x 6 15/16 in.) Mount: 17.4 x 23.5 cm (6 7/8 x 9 1/4 in.). Date: 1912-13. Witkiewicz is a legendary figure in Polish cultural history not only for his multifaceted talent but also for his bohemian lifestyle and eccentric personality. A prolific painter and photographer, dramatist, and philosopher, he made hundreds of self-portraits, sketches, paintings, and studies of friends characterized by a searing self-scrutiny and existential anguish. Taken with a view camera-its lens extended by a drainpipe-this portrait of his colleague Tadeusz Langier is characteristic of the searching photographic studies he made between 1912 and 1914, a period culminating in the suicide of his fiancée. Witkiewicz himself took his own life on the eve of World War II, the day the Red Army invaded eastern Poland.
Technique/material:
Gelatin silver print
Museum:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Credit:
Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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Image size:
4296 x 3122 px | 38.4 MB
Print size:
36.4 x 26.4 cm | 14.3 x 10.4 in (300 dpi)
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