Jerzy Kossak
Jerzy Maciej Kossak (Kraków, 11 September 1886 – 11 May 1955, Kraków) was a Polish realist painter specializing in military scenes. He was the son of painter Wojciech Kossak and grandson of painter Juliusz Kossak, a third-generation artist from a well-known and sought after family of painters, writers and poets.
Artist
Jerzy Kossak was a prolific painter of mostly historic scenes featuring the famed Polish Uhlans on horses, usually sold on the spot, but also used for barter at times of the postwar economic slump, until his death before the end of Stalinism in Poland. His paintings, along with those of his ancestors, remain among the best-selling at Polish art auctions.[1]
Personal life
Jerzy Kossak was a brother of the poet Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska and of the novelist Magdalena Samozwaniec, as well as the father of biologist Simona Kossak and of painter Gloria Kossak. He resides at the historic family manor called "Kossakówka", in metropolitan Kraków.[1]
He was married twice, first to Ewa Kossakowa (née Kaplińska), by whom he had two daughters, (one called Maria, born 1917),[2] and then to Elżbieta Dzięciołowska-Śmiałowska, who was the mother of Simona[3] and Gloria.
See also
- Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889–1968), daughter of Tadeusz Kossak, the twin brother of Jerzy's father
- Kossak family; 4 generations of notable painters, writers and poets
- List of Poles
References
- ^ a b (in Polish) Janusz Miliszkiewicz, Życie jest piękne, part five and six Book except, online reading room: onet.pl Czytelnia
- ^ Jerzy Kossak www.geni.com, accessed 18 December 2020
- ^ Janusz R. Kowalczyk: The Extraordinary Life of Simona Kossak 22 July 2015, culture.pl, accessed 18 December 2020
- Art of Jerzy Kossak at the online gallery pinakoteka.zascianek.pl including short biography and publications in the Polish language
- Articles with Polish-language sources (pl)
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Articles with FAST identifiers
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NKC identifiers
- Articles with NSK identifiers
- Articles with PLWABN identifiers
- Articles with RKDartists identifiers
- Articles with ULAN identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1886 births
- 1955 deaths
- Artists from Kraków
- Artists from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
- 19th-century Polish painters
- 19th-century Polish male artists
- 20th-century Polish painters
- 20th-century Polish male artists
- World War II artists
- Polish war artists
- Polish male painters
- All stub articles
- Polish painter stubs