In 1905 Tymon moved to Zakopane with his aunt Anna Dzikowska. After years of study, this is the second period in the artist's career, from which we still don't know many works, although he painted extensively, especially portraits of Zakopane residents. A portrait created at the beginning of his stay probably depicts the owner of a boarding house with whom he stayed after arriving in Zakopane. A postcard from that time, sent to the artist at the address of Mrs. Eliza Mogilnicka - "Under Modrzejowka Zakopane" - has survived. So it could have been Helena Modrzejewska's villa in Antalowka, which burned down in 1898, but was rebuilt as a boarding house a few years later. A few years later Tymon still made an exlibris of E.Mogilnicka. The portrait still shows the artist's deep fascination with the work of the master Wyspianski. This is what Harbaszewski writes about it: "Niesiolowski's portrait compositions: the portrait of Eliza Mogilnicka (il. 16), Wladyslaw Orkan or the preserved photograph of the Reading Book are also derived from portrait compositions by Stanisław Wyspianski. Here, the figures are framed in a plane framed by expressive lines, and in the background of the Portrait of Eliza Mogilnicka we have stylized, flat floral motifs. Drawing the faces, the artist aims to capture the mental life of the model and, like Wyspiański, omits the details of the clothes, concentrating on the facial expressions" (p.97).
Literature:
- Jadwiga Puciata-Pawłowska, Krakow artistic circles in the years of Tymon Niesiołowski's studies, [in:] Bydgoski Rocznik Muzealny, Bydgoszcz 1969, p.53, il.18;
- Tymon Niesiolowski. Catalog of the exhibition, opr. Anna Tyczyńska, Warsaw 1982, p.5, item 1, p.86, il.2;
- Krzysztof Harbaszewski, Early work of Tymon Niesiołowski ( to 1926), [in:] Roczniki Humanistyczne, vol. XXXIII, 1985, z.4., p.95, il.16;
- Irena Bal, Tymon Niesiolowski, [in:] Słownik artystów polskich i w Polsce działających, vol. VI, Warsaw 1998, p.68.
