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Władysław Drapiewski (12 November 1876, Gacki – 30 December 1961, Pelplin) was a Polish painter who was one of the best-known creators of religious paintings in the first half of the 20th-century in Poland.
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Władysław Drapiewski (12 November 1876, Gacki – 30 December 1961, Pelplin) was a Polish painter who was one of the best-known creators of religious paintings in the first half of the 20th-century in Poland.
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Biography He initially studied painting and graphics with Antoni Szymański. He left for Kevelaer in 1899, where he studied at the International School of Church Painting headed by Friedrich Stummel. Painting was taught there in accordance with the artistic assumptions of the Nazarene movement. At the same time, he traveled to Paris, Berlin, Munich and Rome, studying in places such as the Academy of Arts in Berlin and Académie Julian. After returning to Poland, he was involved in the creation of a polychrome interior of the Płock Cathedral in Płock. This happened because, after the competition was settled in 1901, the design of Józef Mehoffer was chosen, but bishop Jerzy Józef Szembek had reservations about the liturgical issues posed and the work was stopped in the absence of an agreement. In the meantime, the bishop of Płock was Apolinary Wnukowski, who was presented the project of Drapiewski, whose work gained the approval of both the bishop and the chapter. To help with such a large project, he employed the Luxembourgian painter Nicolas Brücher. The painted characters of the polychrome gave the faces of people such as Tadeusz Korzon, Władysław Smoleński and Stanisław Tarnowski. As a background, he created a panorama…
