Konstanty Górski

Paroda dailininko Konstantino Gorskio 150-osioms gimimo metinėms - https://www.bernardinai.lt/2018-02-22-paroda-dailininko-konstantino...

Konstanty Gorski – dailininkas iš Kazimieravos - https://www.vandziogala.lt/naujiena/konstanty-gorski-%E2%80%93-dail...

Kai suvokiame meno vertę - https://www.vandziogala.eu/lt/1287-kai-suvokiame-meno-verte

The artist KONSTANTY GÓRSKI (1868–1934) was born on the Kazimieravas estate near Vandžiogala, and studied art at Ivan Trutnev’s School of Drawing in Vilnius. His studies later took him to Moscow, St Petersburg, Munich, Paris and Rome. He established a reputation as an outstanding painter of portraits, history and genre pictures, as well as being a talented book illustrator. On returning from his travels in Europe, Górski lived with his brothers on the Kazimieravas estate for a short while. He moved to Warsaw in 1894, but also took part in artistic life in Vilnius. He created a collection of family portraits at Kazimieravas. The self-portrait from 1896 shows a man dressed in a fashionable light suit, elegant, refined and cultivated. There is no coat of arms or other details pointing to his social status, but it is clear from the subject’s posture. The format of the painting and the composition, with the figure cut off at the knees, are characteristics of society portraits, but the relaxed pose, with one hand in a pocket, avoids an official impression, and gives it a certain familiarity and nonchalance. The subject is looking sideways, preserving a distance between the painter and the viewer, and emphasizing the unfathomable mood of the artist.