Jerzy Jełowicki (CHRISTMAS) (ur. 1899 Rożniatówka (Podolia), zm. 1939 Warsaw (fell in defense of the city on 27 IX.)).
Farmer engineer, painter, member of the Warsaw School group. He exhibited his artistic interests from the earliest years, as a junior high school student, he wrote poems for the school magazine, he drew caricatures and battle scenes. He graduated from agronomic studies at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences and painting at the local Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied at the studio of T.. Pruszkowski. From 1935 he exhibited regularly with the Warsaw School, which grouped the pupils of that studio. He painted genre paintings, above all, however, battle and historical. Slightly, with a certain nonchalance and as if casually creating his own, kept in a post-impressionist manner, compositions. Referring to tradition “Polish horsemanship” He successfully modernized his old patterns, drawing attention to the great originality of the painting theme, whose leitmotif was a rider on a horse. Jełowicki's artistic legacy was dispersed and mostly destroyed during the war.
Farmer engineer, painter, member of the Warsaw School group. He exhibited his artistic interests from the earliest years, as a junior high school student, he wrote poems for the school magazine, he drew caricatures and battle scenes. He graduated from agronomic studies at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences and painting at the local Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied at the studio of T.. Pruszkowski. From 1935 he exhibited regularly with the Warsaw School, which grouped the pupils of that studio. He painted genre paintings, above all, however, battle and historical. Slightly, with a certain nonchalance and as if casually creating his own, kept in a post-impressionist manner, compositions. Referring to tradition “Polish horsemanship” He successfully modernized his old patterns, drawing attention to the great originality of the painting theme, whose leitmotif was a rider on a horse. Jełowicki's artistic legacy was dispersed and mostly destroyed during the war.
Battle scene conquering Sandomierz
oil, canvas on plywood, 121 x 140 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw;
oil, canvas on plywood, 121 x 140 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw;
Battle scene
oil, canvas, 107 x 137 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw;
oil, canvas, 107 x 137 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw;
