ЛЮДВІК ЗЕЛІНСЬКИЙ ТА ЙОГО СПІВПРАЦЯ З ІЛЮСТРАТОРАМИ ЧАСОПИСУ «LWOWIANIN»(1835–1842 рр.)

Abstract

The constant growth of interest of both researchers and the general public in studying the formation of the so-called. local (local, narrow-regional) press, in our case – Galicia (Lviv), as well as the role of lithographers in this process, prompted us to study this initial stage of formation of the Galician press. Our task was to outline the circle of artists-collaborators of the first local lore Polish-language magazine Lwowianin in Galicia, through the prism of the biography of its publisher Ludwik Zelinsky to show the creative activity of lithographers involved in the publication of the magazine in 1835–1842. Research methodology. The study mainly used biographical, descriptive and iconographic methods. Methods of historical source, comparative-statistical, as well as general historical methods were also used. Conclusions. A review of the illustrative material of Lwowianin magazine in the context of the biography of the publisher Ludwik Zelinsky, biographical and creative, far from complete, information about the lithographers involved in his work, allows to outline the level of their creative activity in the publication. In the initial period – the period of formation of the magazine (the first half of 1835), the level of Lwowianin design was not high. This year, low-level artist E. Stoltz and amateur artist A. Tomashevsky were involved in the work of the magazine. What is especially characteristic of Stoltz, and not at all typical of other designers of the magazine, he created eight woodcuts (woodcuts). Philip Rebiger collaborated with the magazine even before he entered the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts (1837). It is the lithographs of A. Tomaszewski’s self-taught work, which he submitted to the journal during 1835–1837, that Lwowianin contains the most. Two lithographs for Lwowianin were made by professional artists T. Zhykhovych (1836) and A. Nigroni (1837). In 1839, L. Zelinsky invited the well-known professional artist and lithographer Josef Svoboda to collaborate with the magazine. for L. Zelinsky, and it is very likely that he, not P. Piller, became Auer’s first employer, inviting him to Lviv. Only A. Tomaszewski made more illustrations for the magazine, although in the end L. Zelinsky preferred K. Auer to design the last issues of the magazine. In the appendix we publish one letter of A. Tomaszewski, one letter of J. Swoboda and eight letters of K. Auer. Keywords: lithographer, lithography, carving, artist, Ludwik Zelinsky, magazine, Lwowianin, Edward Stoltz, Teofil Zhykhovych, Adolf Nigroni, Aloysius Tomaszewski, Philip Rebiger, Josef Svoboda, Carl Auer, Peter Piller, letters, Zolochiv.