Władysław Ślewiński (1856, in Nowy Białynin - 1918, in Paris) was a Polish painter.
He was one of Gauguin's students and a leading artist of the Young Poland movement (a modernist period in Polish visual arts, literature and music, covering roughly the years between 1890 and 1918. It was a result of strong aesthetic opposition to the earlier ideas of Positivism. Young Poland promoted trends of decadence, neo-romanticism, symbolism, impressionism and art nouveau).
Biography
He was born to a landowning family and his mother died in childbirth.
His cousin, the painter Józef Chełmoński, noticed his artistic talent and advised his father to enroll him at the drawing school operated by Wojciech Gerson.
His father resisted at first, but finally agreed.
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