Poets who moved the air
Poets who moved the air

Stanisław Witkiewicz – Dušan Samuel Jurkovič

Author(s): Michał Burdziński
Contributor(s): Katarzyna Wieleńska (Translator)
Subject(s): 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Stanisław Witkiewicz; Dušan Samuel Jurkovič; vernacular architecture; Zakopane style; Central European modernism
Summary/Abstract: The essence of this comparative study is to look closer, and simultaneously, at the intellectual profiles and creative practices of two outstanding representatives of vernacular architecture at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in the Polish and Czech-Slovak milieux, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in Central Europe. The aesthetic being of Stanisław Witkiewicz and Dušan Samuel Jurkovič–in a way, men as institutions of their times–eventually gained the rank of all-cultural phenomena and inscribed themselves with nation-forming notes in the histories of their communities. The article deals with what mechanisms governed them and what processes they themselves managed, and moreover–what effects they evoked in both cases. It turns out, among other things, that the stagnant, invariably repeated statements about the similarities of the two casuses largely miss their internal distinctions. Ultimately, it goes to the point that reveals the great or unfavorable vicissitudes of people’s lives as well as their efforts and achievements.

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