Clementi pittore. The creative activity of émigré painter Klemens Rodziewicz as evidenced through his letters to Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to present the creative work of émigré painter Klemens Rodziewicz based on his letters to Józef Ignacy Kraszewski. In the analysed correspondence (137 autographs from the years 1858–1881), the author devotes a great deal of attention to his work, descriptions of created pieces, used artistic techniques and his perfecting the skills. Another theme is the business relationship between the painter and the writer. The material shows the workshop of the copyist painter and the circumstances in which individual pieces of art were created. Therefore, it can be treated as a base for further studies on the life situation and creative activity of the nineteenth-century Polish émigré artists.