Dimensions: 48.5 x 55 cm
Signed and dated p.d.: '1946 | Kasper Pochwalski.'
on the reverse oil portrait of a man
Biography
He was the nephew of the well-known portraitist Kazimierz Pochwalski. Between 1917 and 1922, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Jozef Mehoffer, who considered him his most talented student. At the same time, he studied art history at Jagiellonian University. After receiving a scholarship from the French government, he studied for a year with Maurice Denis at the Académie Ranson in Paris. He exhibited at the TPSP in Krakow, Lviv and Poznan, the Zachęta Gallery and the IPS in Warsaw. In addition, he participated in the exhibitions of the groups "Art" (from 1924), "Jednoróg" and "Zwornik". In 1925 he had a solo exhibition at the TPSP in Cracow, and in 1927 also in Grudziądz and Bydgoszcz. He painted landscapes, architectural views, portraits, still lifes and, less frequently, genre scenes. He also did mural painting, decorating mainly churches of the Cracow diocese (including those in Ciężkowice, Ratoszyn, Myszków).
