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Turowicz, Joanna: Eve by Xawery Dunikowski: Modernist Transformation of the Biblical Type
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3. The exhibition of sculptures
by Xawery Dunikowski
in Viennise Hagebund,
February — March 1908;
from the left:
Pregnant Womon II, 11/and III
(Phof. after Sztuki Piękne,
3,1926/27, 12, p. 433)
1905 the first exhibition of Dunikowskie works was opened in the Krywult
Salon which madę a big stir among the Warsaw public (ill. 4). The artist
presented many sculptures deforming human body, such as Hopelessness,
Doom, Being, Breath and Love, called also Creativity (ill. 5, 6).8 The critics
kept complaining about the young artist’s decision to create bizarre, caricatur-
-like forms, departing from patterns found in naturę, which was all the
morę surprising that Dunikowski had already established himself as a superb
portrait artist. As far as the form is concerned, the sculptures exhibited
in 1907 drew morę from reality. This time the main reproach of the critics
was ugliness and perverse taste expressed in the naturalistic rendering of
the subject.9 10
In the beginning of 1908 Eve I (again entitled Study) was presented at an
exhibition of the “Sztuka” Society in Hagebund in Vienna.l(l Among the
works shown by Dunikowski were: Breath, Doom, as well as four statues of
pregnant women. His art, especially the sculptures of women, were praised
by Yiennese critics. The works of the young sculptor were favourably reviewed
9 Many reviews mention these titles; cf. Polska bibliografia..., op. cit., p. 240. All the above-
-mentioned sculptures were shown at the exhibition for the first time, only Breath I
(Tchnienie I) had been presented in 1903; cf. VII Wystawa Towarzystwa Artystów Polskich
“Sztuka” i II Wystawa Towarzystwa “Polska Sztuka Stosowana”, exh. cat., Cracow 1903,
item. 136.
9 Cf. J. Kleczyński, Rzeźba współczesna. Rodin, Meunier, Vigeland, Biegas, Dunikowski, Warsaw
1909, pp. 47-48.
10 Cf. Ausstellung der Vereinigung Polnischer Kiinstler “Sztuka", exh. cat., Hagebund, Vienna 1908;
K. Kuzmany, “Die Krakauer ‘Sztuka’”, Die Kunst fur Alle, 19, 1908, 13, p. 296, ill. on p. 303.
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by Xawery Dunikowski
in Viennise Hagebund,
February — March 1908;
from the left:
Pregnant Womon II, 11/and III
(Phof. after Sztuki Piękne,
3,1926/27, 12, p. 433)
1905 the first exhibition of Dunikowskie works was opened in the Krywult
Salon which madę a big stir among the Warsaw public (ill. 4). The artist
presented many sculptures deforming human body, such as Hopelessness,
Doom, Being, Breath and Love, called also Creativity (ill. 5, 6).8 The critics
kept complaining about the young artist’s decision to create bizarre, caricatur-
-like forms, departing from patterns found in naturę, which was all the
morę surprising that Dunikowski had already established himself as a superb
portrait artist. As far as the form is concerned, the sculptures exhibited
in 1907 drew morę from reality. This time the main reproach of the critics
was ugliness and perverse taste expressed in the naturalistic rendering of
the subject.9 10
In the beginning of 1908 Eve I (again entitled Study) was presented at an
exhibition of the “Sztuka” Society in Hagebund in Vienna.l(l Among the
works shown by Dunikowski were: Breath, Doom, as well as four statues of
pregnant women. His art, especially the sculptures of women, were praised
by Yiennese critics. The works of the young sculptor were favourably reviewed
9 Many reviews mention these titles; cf. Polska bibliografia..., op. cit., p. 240. All the above-
-mentioned sculptures were shown at the exhibition for the first time, only Breath I
(Tchnienie I) had been presented in 1903; cf. VII Wystawa Towarzystwa Artystów Polskich
“Sztuka” i II Wystawa Towarzystwa “Polska Sztuka Stosowana”, exh. cat., Cracow 1903,
item. 136.
9 Cf. J. Kleczyński, Rzeźba współczesna. Rodin, Meunier, Vigeland, Biegas, Dunikowski, Warsaw
1909, pp. 47-48.
10 Cf. Ausstellung der Vereinigung Polnischer Kiinstler “Sztuka", exh. cat., Hagebund, Vienna 1908;
K. Kuzmany, “Die Krakauer ‘Sztuka’”, Die Kunst fur Alle, 19, 1908, 13, p. 296, ill. on p. 303.
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