Edward Wittig and Maximilian Voloshin
Dariusz Konstantynów
dariusz.konstantynow@ispan.plInstitute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2064-5677
Abstract
The article is devoted to contacts between the Polish sculptor Edward Wittig (1879–1941) and the Russian poet and critic Maximilian Voloshin (1877–1932). The history of their Paris acquaintance, and the history of the bust of Voloshin sculpted by Wittig and exhibited, under the title The Poet (Le poète), at the Salon du Champ-de-Mars in 1909, are presented on the basis of source materials, including Wittig’s extant letters to Voloshin. Another topic of analysis is Voloshin’s article entitled Edward Wittig (On the possible paths of sculpture), published in the St Petersburg magazine “Apollon” in 1913, which constitutes very interesting evidence of the reception of the Polish sculptor’s early oeuvre.
Keywords:
Edward Wittig, Maximilian Voloshin, Polish artists in Paris in the 20th century, Polish sculpture in the 20th century, Russian writers in Paris in the 20th century, Russian art criticism, Polish-Russian artistic contacts in the 20th centuryReferences
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Dariusz Konstantynówdariusz.konstantynow@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2064-5677
Dariusz Konstantynów is a historian of art, an employee of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on the history of artistic life in Poland in the 19th and early 20th century, as well as on the connections linking visual arts with politics and ideology.
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