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The dialogue with literary and pictorial tradition. The projects of painted decorations of the John III Sobieski chapel in St Joseph’s Church on Kahlenberg, 1911–1914
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2019) Studziżba-Kubalska, Beata
According to tradition, on 12 September 1683, before the Battle of Vienna, John III Sobieski took part in a Holy Mass celebrated by the papal legate Marco d’Aviano in the Guardian Angels Chapel at the Church of St. Joseph on Kahlenberg near Vienna. The memory of this event was cultivated by the Polish community in Vienna from the mid-19th century on. Fr Jakub Kukliński, the Resurrectionist rector of the church on Kahlenberg since 1906, undertook the task of renovating the church and the chapel, which had been named the Sobieski Chapel. Two competitions were held for the interior decoration project. Finally, this task was entrusted to Józef Mehoffer at the end of 1911. His plans for the decorations include the monumental composition “Joannes Vinces”, 1912, with the scene of the Mass of Marc d’Aviano and two painting sketches are connected with his concept of decoration: “The Prayer of Innocent XI” and “The Archangel over the Battlefield”, 1912–1913. As requested by his clients, in the scene Joannes Vinces Mehoffer referred to the Austrian tradition of depicting the memorable mass on Kahlenberg, including the German commanders together with Sobieski and his son James. The painting “Joannes Vinces” is dominated by the means of expression characteristic of historical painting. Generally, Mehoffer’s concept of chapel decoration should be considered an expression of the artist’s search for new forms of monumental painting. His painting concept was not realized.
The Interior Decoration of the Sobieski Chapel at the Church on Kahlenberg Hill in Vienna
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017-12) Wolańska, Joanna
According to tradition, in the ruins of the Camaldolese church at Kahlenberg Hill (part of a hermitage founded in the first half of the 17 th century and destroyed by the Turks occupying the city), in the morning of 12 September 1683, before the decisive battle of Vienna, papal legate Marco d’Aviano celebrated a mass at which John III Sobieski served. The celebrant – instead of the standard “Ite, missa est” – at the end of the mass, pronounced the prophetic words: “Ioannes vinces”. The Polish community living in Vienna returned to this tradition at the beginning of the 20 th century, and spontaneously, with the help of their compatriots in Poland, managed to restore the chapel adjacent to the church which, at that time, was in private ownership. It was only a few years later that the Resurrectionist Congregation of Vienna took possession of the building and Father Jakub Kukliński (1871–1946) was appointed rector of the church. It was also him who, for almost 25 years, had striven to rebuild and renovate the chapel, his efforts resulting, in 1930, in the execution of wall paintings by Jan Henryk Rosen and Kazimierz Smuczak, which survive to this day. The present article examines the changes in the interior decoration of the chapel, starting from the earliest, and today almost unknown, works completed before the chapel had been taken over by the Resurrectionists in 1906 (when the chapel “institutionalised” its function as a “Polish church”) to a competition for its interior decoration in 1909, and the designs for wall paintings drawn by Józef Mehoffer in 1912, which remained unexecuted because of the outbreak of World War I, and finally, to the already mentioned decorations by Rosen and Smuczak.