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DOI article:Rozprawy
DOI article:Kwiatkowski, Marek: W sprawie autorstwa niektórych pałaców grupy wielkopolskiej: ze studiów nad klasycyzmem polskim
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.45620#0186
MAREK KWIATKOWSKI
pałace has a very riclh, stucco ornaimentation of
a very high artisltic sitandard, and it is very well
preserved. Until only a short while ago it was not
known by whom it was madę. It was often conside-
red to be the work of K. G. Langhaus, the constructor
df the pałace. It proved however to have been built
by J. Chr. Kamsetzer the architect of the palactes
at Sierniki and Siedlec. This is shown to be so by
the plan of the fiest floor — madę by Kamsetzer,
but not signed — by a document in the archives
whićh shows that the owner owed Kamsetzer a large
sum, and by the style of the ornamentation. Many
analogies are to be found in a number of Warsaw
palaces decorated by Kamsetzer. The likeness is so
striking, even in the rnanner of execution, that we
may suppose it to have been madę by the same
team of craftsmen that worked in Warsaw. The Pa-
włowice Pałace is considered to have been decorated
in the eighties or nineties of the XVILIth century.
This decoration is remarkable for its whiteness
and a grest variety of compositions. Arabesque and
grotesąue motives are to be found with in geometrie
designs. The ornamentation of the different rooms
is adapted to the atmosphere the artist wished to
create (there are rooms simply decorated as well as
very sumptuous ones).
In looking for the sources of Kamsetzer’s style
of interior decoration in these palaces we must go
to Ehglaind, and especially ‘to the work of R. Adam,
and T. Leverton, from whom Kamsetzer took many
motives.
The works of Kamsetzer, recently shown to be
authentic, 'throw a new light on his creative work.
They show him to have been not only a talented
decorator, as he was considered up to now. but ałso
a creator of new architectural conceptions, which
played a very important part in the development of
Polish architecture of the classicist period.
The above mentioned works of Kamsetzer also
throw new light on the relationship between Polish
and English classicism.
pałace has a very riclh, stucco ornaimentation of
a very high artisltic sitandard, and it is very well
preserved. Until only a short while ago it was not
known by whom it was madę. It was often conside-
red to be the work of K. G. Langhaus, the constructor
df the pałace. It proved however to have been built
by J. Chr. Kamsetzer the architect of the palactes
at Sierniki and Siedlec. This is shown to be so by
the plan of the fiest floor — madę by Kamsetzer,
but not signed — by a document in the archives
whićh shows that the owner owed Kamsetzer a large
sum, and by the style of the ornamentation. Many
analogies are to be found in a number of Warsaw
palaces decorated by Kamsetzer. The likeness is so
striking, even in the rnanner of execution, that we
may suppose it to have been madę by the same
team of craftsmen that worked in Warsaw. The Pa-
włowice Pałace is considered to have been decorated
in the eighties or nineties of the XVILIth century.
This decoration is remarkable for its whiteness
and a grest variety of compositions. Arabesque and
grotesąue motives are to be found with in geometrie
designs. The ornamentation of the different rooms
is adapted to the atmosphere the artist wished to
create (there are rooms simply decorated as well as
very sumptuous ones).
In looking for the sources of Kamsetzer’s style
of interior decoration in these palaces we must go
to Ehglaind, and especially ‘to the work of R. Adam,
and T. Leverton, from whom Kamsetzer took many
motives.
The works of Kamsetzer, recently shown to be
authentic, 'throw a new light on his creative work.
They show him to have been not only a talented
decorator, as he was considered up to now. but ałso
a creator of new architectural conceptions, which
played a very important part in the development of
Polish architecture of the classicist period.
The above mentioned works of Kamsetzer also
throw new light on the relationship between Polish
and English classicism.