Ars: časopis Ústavu Dejín Umenia Slovenskej Akadémie Vied (45.2012)

4. Henryk Villati: Gierdyiejewski in His Studio, 10.1. 1855, pencilonpaper. Repro: The Olszynski Album, IV, Nos. 406, 407, 408. Warsaw,
National Museum.


which represented “devils, mtches, ghosts, andmidnighf',
appeared close to the poetry of Wolski, the faithful
companion of his drinking sprees. Although he did
not practise caricature himself, Gierdziejewski was
a favourite subject of humorous sketches drawn by
his companions [Fig. 4], who would often poke fun
at his misadventures caused by alcohol. The model
of the social outsider, he died prematurely at the
age of 34.29
There was another talented caricaturist, who kept
company with the first Warsaw bohème in his youth

29 KOZAKIEWICZ, S.: Ignacy Gierdjjejewski 1826 — 1860.
Wroclaw 1958.

and moved onto the Olszynski pack, námely another
student of the School of Fine Arts, Franciszek Kos-
trzewski. Unüke Brodowski, however, he treated this
medium as his major art form, becoming the first
hugely successful professional caricaturist in Warsaw,
who, like Daumier, kept amusing the population of
the city with his characteristic Cartoons appearing on
the pages of the major dailies and illustrated books
for many décades until the dawn of the twentieth
Century [Fig. 5].30 In his memoir of 1881, which in
itself provides an interesting document of the artist’s
30 PIATKOWSKI 1895 (see in note 2), p. 244. On Kostrzew-
ski, see JAKIMOWICZ, I.: Vrancisjek, Koslrjeuiski. Warszawa
1952.

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