Re: Polish to English translation help requested

[Dave Glasser]

Daria Wieczorek <daria.w...@uni-giessen.de> wrote on Mon, 19 Sep
2005 23:08:36 +0200 in soc.culture.polish:

>Dave Glasser wrote:
>
>> I recently bought a watercolor painting by a Warsaw artist named Anna
>> Karlinska. There is something written on the back in Polish, which I
>> think is the name of the painting. A scan of it is here:
>> http://qform.sourceforge.net/watercolor_title.jpg
>
>Well, what I read there is "Akwarela wg Fonwisina" - which translates to
>"Watercolor based on Fonwisin". There are different artist with the name of
>Fonwisin but my guess would be that the one meant here is the watercolor
>painter Artur Fonwisin (1882–1973):
>http://www.mdz-info.de/Museen_und_Galerien/2003/02/14/12.52.11.htm
>This article is in German, unfortunately - it says that Fonwisin devoted his
>paintings to circus and theatre. You may decide yourself if your watercolor
>resembles the one included with the article :)

Thank you, Daria, very much! My watercolor does in fact look like it
might have been inspired by the style of Fonwisin. Here it is:

http://qform.sourceforge.net/watercolor.jpg

Whether or not it was based on a particular painting of his is hard to
know. I couldn't find any examples of his work on the web other than
the one you provided.

At any rate, the infomation you provided makes me appreciate the
painting even more. Thanks again!

[Dave Glasser]

I recently bought a watercolor painting by a Warsaw artist named Anna
Karlinska. There is something written on the back in Polish, which I
think is the name of the painting. A scan of it is here:

http://qform.sourceforge.net/watercolor_title.jpg

If someone could translate that to English for me, I would appreciate
it very much.

[Daria Wieczorek]

Dave Glasser wrote:

> I recently bought a watercolor painting by a Warsaw artist named Anna
> Karlinska. There is something written on the back in Polish, which I
> think is the name of the painting. A scan of it is here:
> http://qform.sourceforge.net/watercolor_title.jpg

Well, what I read there is "Akwarela wg Fonwisina" - which translates to

"Watercolor based on Fonwisin". There are different artist with the name of
Fonwisin but my guess would be that the one meant here is the watercolor
painter Artur Fonwisin (1882–1973):
http://www.mdz-info.de/Museen_und_Galerien/2003/02/14/12.52.11.htm
This article is in German, unfortunately - it says that Fonwisin devoted his
paintings to circus and theatre. You may decide yourself if your watercolor
resembles the one included with the article :)

Daria