Krzesz-Mecina Query

[Chew G]

The website mentioned by Alexandra roughly excerpts the material on Janácek's Otce nás (Janacek IV/29) from the authoritative catalogue of his works, Nigel Simeone, John Tyrrell and Alena Nemcová, _Janacek's Works: A Catalogue of the Music and Writings of Leos Janacek_ (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997). For the sake of accuracy (and for a little extra information), here is literally what the catalogue states (p. 129):
 
"A series of eight paintings by the Polish artist Józef Mecina-Krzesz (1860-1924) illustrating the words of the Lord's Prayer was commissioned by the Austrian Ministry for Education (Mr Baillet de Latour), and had been exhibited in Vienna and then in the Krywult Salon in Warsaw. The Warsaw exhibition prompted a long article about them, accompanied by black and white reproductions, in a Warsaw journal Tygodnik ilustrowany on 28 Oct 1899, a copy of which found its way to Brno.
According to [Jaroslav] Vogel [his biography of Janacek in the second revised English edition, 1981, p. 152] this issue was lent by an unnamed Brno teacher to the committee of the recently formed Zenská útulna [Women's shelter], in which both Janacek's wife Zdenka and their daughter Olga were active; it seems to have inspired a fund-raising project in which tableaux vivants illustrating Mecina-Krzesz's pictures would be performed by the Tyl amateur theatre club for one performance in the National Theatre in Brno (15 June 1901) in aid of the Women's Shelter. Janacek was invited to write the accompanying music. The originals of the pictures have disappeared, probably in World War II; the black and white reproductions in Tygodnik ilustrowany thus provide the only record today of Janacek's inspiration."
 
 
I should add that besides the picture reproduced on the website, Tyrrell reproduced two of the others in the programme booklet for the Janacek celebration at the Barbican in London in 1993.  I have a copy of that booklet and could scan the pictures for you if you wish.
 
Geoff
 
 Geoffrey Chew
 g.chew at rhul.ac.uk

 
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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on behalf of Alexandra Smith

It seems that one image is reproduced 
here:http://www.leosjanacek.com/our_father.htm

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