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

8. Martin Olssynski: Devil the Journalist wbich Fini' Out of the Chimney during the Nameday Party on Saint Martin ’s Day, 1854, photo. Repro:
The Olszyňski Album, IV, No. 449. Warsaw, National Museum.

landscapes.3 Another “celebrity” was Juliusz Kos-
sak, specialising in horses and batdes, the only mem-
ber of the core of the Olszyňski group who was
of noble origin and rather well connected with his
mostly aristocratie patrons. A law graduate from the
University in Lviv and trained as painter privately,
he did not go through the éducation apparatus of
the Warsaw School of Fine Arts.37 38 Nonetheless, he
joined the group on his arrivai in Warsaw in 1853,
apparently not having any problems with fitting in,
and contributing significantly to all its activiües,

37 On Gerson, see ZIELIŇSKA, J.: Wojciech Gerson. 'Vl-e.K’i'eem.
1978; KOPSZAK, P.: Wojciech Gerson (1851 - 1901). Warszawa
2007.

including a plethora of sketches in the Olszynski’s
album [Fig. 7], As reported by many commenta-
tors, the personality who “cemented” the group,
acting as both its member and as a patron was the
kind-hearted Marcin Olszyňski. “Neither a painter,
nor a sculptor, but inseparably integrated with the history
of Polish art” f he was a typical représentative of
the Warsaw intelligentsia of the time, the son of
the civil servant of the lower nobility background.
Always interested in art, and training in the new
profession of the photographer, Olszyňski used all
38 On Kossak, see WITKIEWICZ 1906 (see in note 2).
39 Ibidem, pp. 38-39.

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