STANISŁAW
BOHUSZ-SIESTRZEŃCEWICZ
(1869–1927)
The realisation of the presentation funded
as part of the programme EU Interreg Lietuva-Polska
Project: LT-PL-5R-389
The Portrait of Anna Minkiewicz
The Portrait of Anna Minkiewicz
1908, pastel, cardboard, 48 x 48 cm
sticker on the back of the painting
private owner
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Anna Minkiewicz was the daughter of Michał Minkiewicz (1858-1943), a medical doctor, Vilnius city doctor, editor of a monthly magazine Vilnius Medical Doctor, writer and co-creator of Ach! cabaret. There is a sticker on the back with a note about the girl’s fate and the place of burial. “Buried in Poryte in the Kisielnicki family grave”. The Kisielnicki family from Poryte is the family of Maria Kossak from the Kisielnicki Family (1861-1943), Wojciech Kossak’s wife. The young couple were married in a church in Poryte and that’s where the girl was buried in the Kisielnicki family grave, most likely that of Maria Kossak’s parents. It can be claimed that the Kisielnicki and Minkiewicz families were related. The girl died in Korzeniste, the estate where Anna from the Kisielnicki-Kossak family was born (1863-1944), the wife of Tadeusz (1857-1935), Wojciech’s twin brother. Anna was Maria’s cousin. The entanglement of family alliances and human fates can be deciphered by a patient researcher.