Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska, Stefania [Hrsg.]; Malkiewicz, Barbara [Hrsg.]; Muzeum Narodowe <Krakau> [Hrsg.]; Gołubiew, Zofia [Hrsg.]; Blak, Halina [Hrsg.]; Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie [Hrsg.]: Modern Polish painting: the catalogue of collections (Band 2): Polish painting from around 1890 to 1945 (Cracow, 1998)

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GILEWSKI I GIZBERT


382.
Portrait of Henryk Pachonski, 1926
Oil on canvas, 90 x 60
Signed and dated bottom left: St Gilewski \
1926
Inv. no MNK II-b-1758 (311 255)
Gift of Jan Pachonski, 1966
Henryk Pachonski (1878-1957) was a philoso-
phy professor, writer and social-national activist.
In 1920 he became the Secretary General of the
Society for the Protection of Polish Western
Borderlands, a co-organizer of the Silesian
uprisings and of the 1921 plebiscite in Upper
Silesia. From 1918 to 1939 he was the Chair-
man of the Association of Participants in the
Liberation of the City of Cracow.

Maria GIZBERT (GIZBERT-STUDNICKA) m
Bom at Niwki near Tamow in 1868 — Died in Cracow in 1955
From about 1882 she studied painting at the Adrian Baraniecki Higher Courses for Women in
Cracow, then at the Academie Colarossi in Paris, attending simultaneously lectures on art history
at Sorbonne. She travelled widely, among others to Italy, Belgium, France and Denmark. She
returned to Poland in 1901 — first she lived in Cracow, from 1914 in Lvov, in 1934 she returned
to Cracow. She displayed her works at the Cracow and Lvov Society of Friends of the Fine Arts
and at the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
She most often produced landscapes and floral compositions, she also painted some figural
compositions, designed stained-glass windows and took up decorative painting.


383.
The Sea, 1914
Oil on canvas, 64 x 90.5
Signed and dated bottom right: Gizbert |
Viareggio 1914
Inv. no 11-b-3298
Gift of the Council of the City of Cracow, 1986

384.
Soldier, [ca. 1920]
Oil on cardboard, 24.5 x 26.5
Signed bottom right: Gizbert
Inv. no MNK II-b-3299
Gift of the Council of the City of Cracow, 1986