Dialog on Soul and Fate
Stanislaw Vincenz (1888—1971)
GRENOBLE – LA COMBE (FRANCE)
ABOUT EXHIBITION
In 1947, the Vincenzes went to southern France and settled in Uriage-les-Bains, and two years later, they moved to Grenoble. During the summer, they used to move from town to country to La Combe-de-Lancey. Initially, they rented a room, later their son, Andrzej Vincenz, bought an old farmhouse. It was there that the Vincenzes felt free again.
Stanisław Vincenz with Irena and Barbarą and his sister Maria, brother Kazimierz and brother’s wife Halszka, Grenoble, 1952
Stanisław Vincenz in Grenoble, 1947
Stanisław Vincenz in Grenoble, around 1961
He was a mountain man, in exile in The Dauphiné, far from his native Carpathians. He was a man of walks, climbing and dancing. By the time I met him, he was already quite old and probably slower in movements than he used to be. But sometimes, he disappeared in the evenings for long hours and ran along the mountain streams near Grenoble. He was a friend. The guests came not only from the village, they came from everywhere, quite far away. Sometimes there was nothing in the house but some maize porridge. You shared this porridge and ate it with relish.
(Jeanne Hersch, O Stanisławie Vincenzie [About Stanisław Vincenz], 1971)
The house in La Combe, 1959
Irena and Stanisław Vincenz in La Combe, 1959
Stanisław Vincenz with friends from Switzerland, La Combe, 1958