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Michael Willmann - some call him pompously The Silesian Apelles, but I would rather call him Silesian Rubens or Rembrandt or Van Dyck.
Not just because he lived in the times close to those Dutch master painters, but above all,because his works were made under their expressive influence,plus his own,locally influenced genious,
He was born in Królewiec/ Königsberg in 1630 - at that time a part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,(just like my great-grandfather nearly two centuries later.Yay!).
His family was of poor's guild painter.This is probably why his education lasted so long.
At the age of twenty he went in Amsterdam to learn.
At about 1665 he appeared at the Habsburg court in Prague.
In 1660 he settled in Lubiąż /Leubus in Lower Silesia. He started cooperation with the Cistercian order, from which he took over most of his orders for the creation of works and where he founded a family,spend most of his life and died in 1706.
From about 1660ties he began to create his most beautiful works.I encourage all of you to visit Lubiąż/Leubus,Krzeszów/Grussau and Henryków/Heinrichau monastries in the Lower Silesia/Nietherschlesien to see most of his masterships and to feel the spirit of the country that must have influenced him. :-)
His paintings decorate many churches in Lower Silesia, but also in Poland Proper (outside The Lower/Upper Silesia).
Some of them can now be found also in Warsaw,where they have found themselves to replace older paintings destroyed or stolen or robbed during the WWII by the germans.
8 days ago I visited the church of St. Joseph in Krzeszów/Grussau in Lower Silesia/. The Willmann frescos decorate the whole church.
Willmann paintings embellish also the two side chapels of the huge basilica right next. I did not take pictures there, unfortunately (it was too dark), but take a look at the Saint Joseph Church in Krzeszów Decorated with his frescos.Just have a look at the pictures.And all you spectators,please,do not blame the painter for the shortcomings of the photographer.
This was The National Day of The Flag,The 2nd of May,so The Church of Saint Joseph and The Abbot's residence looked good enough,even for any nationalistic zealot
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The Willmann's painted ceiling....
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and the ceiling with powerfull organs,constructed by the masters from Breslau/Wrocław placed on the northern empora of the church...
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The altar and the other parts of the church...
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