A Gypsy: On Krystyna Herling-Grudzińska on the Centenary of Her Birth

Joanna BIELSKA-KRAWCZYK

Zakład Filmu i Kultury Audiowizualnej, Katedra Kulturoznawstwa, Wydział Filologiczny, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, ul. Fosa Staromiejska 3, 87-100 Toruń, Poland , Poland



Abstract

This text is a form of reflection on the secrets of the personality of Krystyna Herling-Grudzińska and was written on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of the paintress. In this short essay Krystyna is shown above all as a woman who inspired eminent Polish writers and who can be considered among the ‘Muses’ of Polish literature of the second part of the 19th century. The image of the artist’s personality conveyed in the paper is based mainly on the poems Władysław Broniewski dedicated to her.

Keywords:

Muse, Krystyna Herling-Grudzińska, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Władysław Broniewski, 20th century Polish literature, 20th century Polish painting


Published
2020-01-25


BIELSKA-KRAWCZYK, J. (2020). Cyganka. O Krystynie Herling-Grudzińskiej w setną rocznicę urodzin. Ethos. Quarterly of The John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of Lublin, 28(4 (112). Retrieved from https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/ethos/article/view/5370

Joanna BIELSKA-KRAWCZYK 
Zakład Filmu i Kultury Audiowizualnej, Katedra Kulturoznawstwa, Wydział Filologiczny, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, ul. Fosa Staromiejska 3, 87-100 Toruń, Poland