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Self-Portrait

Zofia Zielinska

Basic information
ID
С-I-1970
Author
Zofia Zielinska
Name
Self-Portrait
Date of creation
1915–1916
Culture
Contemporary times
Technique
moulding
Material
plaster
Dimensions (height x width x depth, cm)
56.5 x 40 x 25
Additionally
Type
sculpture 3D
Genre
portraiture
Plot
Self-portrait
Information about author
Author
Zofia Zielinska
Artist's lifetime
1894–1944
Country
Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland
Biography
Zofia Petzold (Zielinska) (1894–1944) was a sculptor, the daughter of Emil Petzold, a Lviv scholar and Germanist. She studied sculpture at the Lviv State Industrial School between 1912 and 1916 (according to Yurii Biriuliov, between 1913 and 1916 / Biriuliov Y. Lviv sculpture from Early Classicism to Avant-Garde. Mid-eighteenth – mid-twentieth century. Lviv : Apriori, 2015. P. 349/). During her studies, she made a plaster bust of her father (1912–1913), a self-portrait (c. 1915–1916) and a plaque "Chopin" (all works are in the collection of Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery). She exhibited her plaster plaques and busts at Lviv exhibitions in 1917–1922. She was a member of the Association of Polish Artists in Lviv. In her sculptures made after 1918, she moved towards neoclassical forms.
Object description
"Self-Portrait" (1915–1916) was created by the Lviv sculptor Zofia Petzold at 24 when she was a student at the Lviv State Industrial School. The work is characterised by a combination of academic formal principles, manifested in clear architecture and skilful face modelling, with subtle psychology and impressionistic free-form modelling. The figurative concept of the work is based on the worldview and ideology of feminism, which was established in Eastern Galicia at the beginning of the twentieth century, and the awareness of the woman as a full-fledged subject of social life, thought, will and creativity. Confidence in one's creative abilities is reflected in the straight posture of the head, the high, open forehead, the raised eyebrows, the intelligent, calm gaze that looks into the distance, and the slightly geometric shapes. The sculpture is enhanced by expressive light and shadow effects, unruly thick hair locks, and vigorously modelled clothing.
Portrayed person
The name of the person portrayed
Zofia Zielinska
Lifetime of the person portrayed
1894–1944
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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