Bronisława Wilimowska was married twice
The first husband of the Arms was Colonel Stanisław Wilimowski, and the second – artist Olgierd Szlekys, master of applied art.
Her first husband – Stanisław Wilimowski was born on November 2, 1896 in Lviv. By his education, he was a doctor of rights, and with love of a soldier, serving since 4 November 1918 in the Polish army.
From October 1924 he belonged to the Bureau of the Close War Council, then was employed in the Division of the 3rd General Staff.
In 1928, he became a lecturer in tactics at the Higher War School, which he held for 4 years. In January 1935, he was promoted to the rank of a colonel. In February 1935, by order of the Minister of Military Affairs, he was decommissioned to the Higher School of War and promoted to the position of Head of the Cathedral of General Tactics of the First Course, which he led until 1938.
In October of that year, he was transferred to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of the Diplomatic for an internship to Ljubljana to be Deputy Commander of the 74th advanced Silesian Infantry Regiment. His service in this position was primarily focused on the detailed improvement of a roadmap for delaying and defensive strategies for the border.
Stanislaw died in the first days of the war, the death of a hero in the fight against the German invaders under the Golden Stream close Lublin!
Stanislaw met Bronia – let us remind – in KRYNICY (according to the relation of Arms in Her memories) most likely in 1929. Young, in love with each another “from the first sight” already after a fewer months of acquaintance, said the sacramental YES to each other.
Let's halt for a minute at Colonel Wilimowski, due to the fact that about their common love, the weapon was described as “a miracle”. Their love ended tragically, as we know, and it most likely became 1 of the main motives after 1945 Her painting and the most interesting memories told to friends and friends.
Military subjects, defensive battles, followed by guerrilla war, Lenino and Monte Cassino, as well as military portraits (with Colonel Wilimowski at the head), began to fill her spacious studio.
We mention this due to the fact that the artist was later called (as if she could not paint anything else) a military painter!
Sometimes she, while painting war, battles, polygons and commanders, thought of the late Stanislaw, whom in 1947, and so shortly after the war she managed to commemorate (as we wrote in Chapter II) with obelisk and posthumously promoted to the full PUŁKOVNIK, like Volodyjowski, to whom she frequently compared her beloved STASZKA with heroic acts!
In 1947, her beloved STASHEK was besides decorated posthumously with the silver Cross of Virtuti Militari.
The large feat and accomplishment of the Arms (repeated again!) was to bring about a thorough reconstruction of the Cemetery in Ljubljana in 1983 and to build an awesome monument there for the Silesian insurgents and others – especially the soldiers who died in defence of Poland in 1939, among whom the ashes of Colonel Stanisław Wilimowski besides rested after the exhumation.
The ceremonial ceremony of unveiling the monument, together with the appeal of the fallen, was held on the 40th anniversary of the Polish People's Army in 1983!
In any case, “Staszek” Wilimowski has always been the main character of Her Reunion (prince of OLGIERDEM)!
For hours she spoke about their experiences, their holidays, their trips to the theatre and concerts, about their dreams, what they would do as shortly as the war ended (in which we were not expected to give a button to Germany, and we gave the full country for 5 long years). Which the weapon could never accept!
Thus, her active participation in the Warsaw Uprising and the post-war subject of Poland's reconstruction in her work (but this will be mentioned in the following chapters).
Thus, calling her “only often” an army artist was profoundly inappropriate. I besides never heard the word "socialism" from her mouth, and she besides accepted the sensible approach of Polish political changes after 1989.
She was saved by art, closing herself “at the easel in her own studio and selling the paintings individually.
Many people wanted to have in their homes Its wonderful flowers, Warsaw alleys or Polish landscape, especially beautifully painted portraits.
At this point, it is worth mentioning that Stanisław Wilimowski, Elżbieta Lityńska - the granddaughter of the hero and his first wife Janina from Meyer's home – wrote a book entitled “The Acts of the Life of Colonel Stanisław Wilimowski the hero of 1939” issued by her with the intention of perpetuating memory The grandpa – on her own initiative and at her own expense (!) – is addressed to the surviving generation and the youngest household members and friends dispersed in various places of Europe, primarily in London, Lviv, Wroclaw and Warsaw. (Druk and luminaire to it was made by the Printing home “Poligrafus” – ISBN 978-83-962158-0-2)
The author – Elżbieta Lityńska – is the daughter of Stefan and Ewa Masiewicz, the granddaughter of Stanislaw and Janina Wilimowski, and Stanisław and Michalina Jadwiga Masiewicz.
This is simply a book describing the destiny of Colonel Wilimowski erstwhile he was not yet married to the Gun, and his wife was Janina Meyer. From this relation was born (3 May 1926 in Warsaw) a daughter, named Eve. Ewa – in the future, the parent of Elżbieta Lityńska has shown a highly patriotic attitude both during the German business and in the post-war past of the country.
As an activist of the Resistance, she served in the underground organization “Share Sheregi”, and besides took an active part in the Warsaw Uprising in the “Chrobry II” Battalion.
Among the awards awarded to her after the most eloquent war, next to the Partisan Cross, is the badge of Veteran Walk for Independence.
It may besides be worth pointing out that Stanisław Wilimowski besides had a talent of a cartoonist, and even together with his colleague – Lieutenant Wińczyński wrote a book about his friends from his studies at the Higher War School entitled “La Force Morale”.
Olgiard Szlekys... was the second husband of the Gun; he was a well-known painter, a cardinal and, above all, an interior architect and decorator!
The weapon married him in 1968.
For the writer, these words were Olgird – historically speaking – first of all, the continuation of the pre-war “Lad” Cooperative, which overtakes the later DESA and current privately sold galleries.
He was besides an excellent designer of interesting furniture!
They were characterized by elegance, different lightness and tiny size, making them maximum comfort in tiny dwellings, which arose rapidly in the rebuilding country after planet War II.
Its furniture was peculiarly ingenious, multi-purpose, specified as couches, couches, bookcases, tables, chests, wardrobes and others.
Olgird's furniture designs have won the first awards in utility furniture competitions many times. They besides graced his ideas in the usage of liquid materials for their construction, e.g. artistic fabrics (sometimes protected by plastic mass) for the construction of various doors and tabletops of furniture or springing plywood of respective layers of wood for usage in the plan of relaxing chairs.
A set of 4 specified chairs was given as a gift by Olgard Szlekys Quartet Tadeusz (Wilanowski), for comfortable work during the band's regular rehearsals.
One of the sets of furniture is in the Historical Museum of the City of Warsaw, donated by the Bronia in the 1980s, after the exhibition of the posthumous work of the Artist.
Olgard was besides a large cartoonist and caricatureist.
There is simply a very interesting book about Olgiard, by Prof. Irena Huml entitled “Olgiard Szlekys and the Art of the Interior”, published by the Institute of Art PAS in 1993, which exempts me from a wider description of this very interesting creative personality, in which the utility art and plan of furniture mainly dominated, including for children!
OLGIERDA recalls OLGIERDA very beautifully, she erstwhile said to the squeaker, among others, "I thought that after Staszek's death he would never be actual love for me again." But this 1 came again, unexpectedly.
At first, it was an in-depth sympathy and she thought it was a temporary feeling. But 1 day she loved him, as Staszek had before.
Our characters – she mentioned – were mixed.
We were good together!
We first and foremost had the same passion for art. Same tastes!
So that 1 day Olgiard became the most crucial authority for me in the assessment of my paintings!
I admired his integrity of character, without compromise, and... large delicacy towards the weaker.
Olgird had a very hard childhood and, as an orphan, he could grow up to be a valuable man.
His concern for Stano Gai’ (who was inactive alive) was besides touching.
Also His cordiality to Alusi.
And he besides had a EARTH FOR Stanisław Wilimowski – the first husband of the Arms.
He died suddenly, of a heart he had for respective years, and of diabetes. The weapon left him with large pain and emptiness.
She always stressed that if she had besides left after Staszk's death, this pain would have been saved.
“Olgiard even after Stano Gai's death took to us her “Suckling”, a bitch with whom he went for a walk 3 times a day (and we lived on the 5th floor).
He remained after Olgard an outstanding artistic achievement, which Bronia spread through respective exhibitions, and prof. Irena Huml factually documented in her aforementioned book.
Interestingly, Guns and Olgird captured the same places in their works, but they did so with different techniques.
Personal Memoirs Weapons of Husbands
About Stanislaus...
He mentions Him in his “Lists to a Friend” written to the author of this book.
The weapon states, among others:
“Right after the war,” my main goal was to “restore Polishity” to the cemetery in Lublin (buyed by the Germans throughout the war), on which “the remainder of Stach”. The communicative is touching, so we're going to quote it.
“With the aid of the old man at the time, the ashes of soldiers were exhumed from the graves scattered around the cemetery and laid around a tiny monument created at the time. The black granite plate engraved the names of the recognized, and as NN they rested those who could not be identified.”
By moving Stach's coffin to the tomb of the Guns, she asked it to be opened. In her heart there was inactive hope that individual else was in the coffin. For there was no paper “Zejście Stanisław” and in the hospital, where in November 1939 she sought it – she always emphasized – no record.
There were only witness statements where Stach's body was expected to lie.
This was evidence of how much the local Slaves had taken care of Stacha's burial with dignity.
In the open coffin of the gun, she immediately recognized Stach. Though she saw only his head, the remnants of bandages on his chest and the sheets in which he was put in the coffin. It hurt her that he wasn't buried in his uniform!
But the uniform, as stated by witnesses who (at the time) worked at the hospital, was bloody and torn, so it was burned.
"Something that lit on His finger was a ring. It was taken off, and from now on, I carry it as the only material souvenir, along with a wallet I bought him in Paris.
My ringing was later ripped off by a Nazi erstwhile they took us prisoner after the uprising.
The monument presently located in the Lublicz Cemetery is an crucial manifestation of national memory, is visited willingly by tourists!
It besides has an different originality in the cemetery, due to the fact that it consists of 2 blocks of stone set spatially.
On the first was carved the war order “The Cross of Virtuti Militari”, on the second image of the Cross with dates 1919, 1920, 1921 and 1939.
On horizontal plates from phased granite there are names of 74 Gpp fallen soldiers and names of Silesian insurgents from 1919, 1920, 1921 and 1939.
About Olgard...
When the Guns met Olgird, she thought that it would be, so far, only “passive” knowledge, but his great, sincere and “hot” passion—as the author erstwhile confided to her—warmed her heart and loved her He's just like Stanislaus.
They had the same passion for art, akin tastes, and Olgird became the most crucial authority for her in assessing her work!
But 1 day, while at Alusi's in Italy, Olgird fainted.
In Warsaw, after a thorough study, it turned out that he had heart problems and advanced diabetes. And shortly after, he died – in August 1980. (PART OF HIS REMEMBER)!
"Malaria at a young age contributed to the ruin of his body, and the defect of the heart with diabetes completed it ultimately."
At the minute erstwhile the weapon told me this – I noticed how tears were falling down her cheeks.
After the death of Olgard Brona, she did everything to guarantee that his artistic achievements were preserved through a large posthumous exhibition.
Olgiard Szlekys was truly an ARTIST who full deserved specified an exhibition!
He was born on 15 May 1908 in Kalisz (d. 28 August 1980 in Warsaw) and is buried in Warsaw Military Powązki.
He completed his studies at the erstwhile Academy of Fine Arts (today's Academy of Fine Arts) in 1937, and it is worth noting that after 1945 – together with Władysław Wincze – he created a “VIEW LINE. ŁADOWSKI'S STYLE”, which to this day is considered a classical furniture design! Olgierd besides belonged to the Union of Polish Artists, like Bronia.
And at the end of that memory, a curious fact.
When Stano Gai’ felt her death coming, she told Olgird her want to put her favourite dog Shaggy down and bury her with her.
However, Olgiard did not do her will, but decided – she then recalled the Arms respective times, showing the image of the Shaggy Hanging in Her Worker's Office present – to leave her with us.
And Olgird went with her all day (sometimes we did it together – she recalled Bronia) for walks, beating for this intent regular (and frequently twice/three times) respective floors of stairs leading to our flat in the Old Town. (This gave him additional designation of the weapons, strengthening their relationship!).
“The skirt rode with us virtually everywhere, even on the outdoor side of Lake Bajkał,” said Bronia.
And at the end of that day, erstwhile we met, she said to me:
“Write about it in your book you intend to compose about me” - adding my words erstwhile you compose about Olgard! Adding to this:
- I'm sorry. “If I had left after Stach’s death, how much suffering I would have avoided. I would besides stay unknown among millions. And there would be nothing left of my painting.
Where's my self-portrait? Which I late bought at the sale of “Desy” worthless paintings...". (Today it is owned by the Museum of Warsaw)!
However, the weapons were judged to decision on!
Her artistic career, after Olgird's departure, gained even greater momentum. Deserveing present a very advanced rating, creating an crucial brick in contemporary Polish art after 1945!
—
Karol Chejarek. Bronisława Wilimowska. Everything was painting to her. A communicative about highly colorful life and artistic works. Aspra Publishing House. Warsaw 2025
