Kajetan Kielisiński

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Slice on the nineteenth century Kielisyński acidic

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Kajetan Wincenty Kielisiński (born August 7, 1808 in Mieronis near Wodzisław, died 2 January 1849 in Kórnik), Polish graphic artist and illustrator, librarian. Curriculum vitae

He was the son of Caspar (court officer) and Catherine of Kłosków. He graduated from the junior high school in Pińczów (1828), then went on to study at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Warsaw; His teacher of drawing and lithography was Jan Feliks Piwarski. He stopped studying after the outbreak of the November Uprising. He fought in the rank of insurrection as a lieutenant; After the fall of the uprising he could not return to Warsaw. He lived in Cracow for some time, from 1834 to 1839 he was the custodian of Gwalbert Pawlikowski's collections in Medyka. In 1839 he was employed as a librarian by Tytus Działyński.

As the protector of the library in Kórnik was the author of her first catalogs. He cooperated with Działyński in his publishing activity, among others. He has developed plates with the stamps of the Lithuanian Law of 1339-1529 (issued in 1841). He also worked on the reconstruction of the castle and the garden of Kórnik. Again he took part in the insurrection in 1848 as a captain, he was wounded. After a short stay in prison he returned to Kórnik in the summer of 1848, half a year later he died suddenly. Shortly before his death (1848) he married Apostolic of Gostyńskis.

He was the creator of many etchings and drawings devoted to folklore, the life of Polish villages and towns, monuments, landscapes. He performed as one of the first exlibris in Poland. He collected materials for the planned works - "Polish Antiquities" and "Folk Costumes"; Numerous prints were published by Jan Konstanty Żupański in the Kielishinski album (1853). Kielisiński's graphic works, drawings, sketches and correspondence were kept by the Kórnik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences as well as by national museums (Cracow, Poznań, Warsaw) and famous libraries (Jagiellońska, Ossolineum, Warsaw University). Bibliography

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