Feliks Sypniewski

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birthdate = 1830
location = Pępowo, Poland
deathdate = 1903
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"Feliks Sypniewski" (1830–1903) was a Polish painter and artist who painted mostly historic battle scenes drawn from the borderlands of Poland and Germany.

He was born in 1830 at Skoraszewice near Pempowo, lived and worked mostly in Poznań and Warsaw and moved to Paris in the 1890s. He was buried at the famous Père LaChaise Cemetery in 1903 under a false name.

Paintings

His oil on canvas Knights From a Religious Order, also called The Teutonic Knights, was taken from the Lublin Museum in Poland during World War II German occupation. It was inventoried by the Germans, numbered III BR/7, and possibly taken back to Germany. It is now lost. This painting records the Teutonic Knights' retreat after the Battle of Grunwald in Tannenberg. On the morning of 15 July 1410, the armies of King Wladyslaw Jagiello met them.

In the painting Prince Jozef Sypniewski we can see to the left a Polish Lancer of the French Imperial Garde, and to the right the uniform of the "Grenadier a'cheval". This event took place between 1804 and 1814, during the Napoleonic Occupation of Poland. This reproduction of Sypniewski's original was bought by Mathias Bersolm of the "Society For the Encouragement of the Fine Arts" in Warsaw. The Society was founded to popularise and promote Polish Art in 1860 and operated until 1939. Its aim was also to organise educational activities in the arts world, to support artists and organise exhibitions. It built up a collection of Polish art and gave stipends to aspiring Polish artists.

Gallery

ee also

*Sypniewski

ources

*Pamietnik Towarszystwa Przyjaciol Sztuk Pienknych w Krakowie 1854-1904 by Swieykowski, Emmanuel. -Wyd, 1. - Krakow - 1905
* [http://www.angelfire.com/mi4/polcrt/FelixSypniewski.html Courtly Lives - Felixs Sypniewski - Polish Artist ] at www.angelfire.com - article called "Felix Sypniewski" by Margaret Odrowaz-Sypniewski B.F.A.(2000)

External links

* [http://www.polamcon.org/lostart/349b.htm]
* [http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=11F783BA1D568F0F5BC053BB3595ABB4 Feliks Sypniewski - Past Auction Results ] at www.artnet.com