Ludomir Sleńdziński, *HRUBE NA CYRHLI*, 1952

46 x 62 cm - pencil, cardboard

signed lower left: LUDOMIR SLEŃDZIŃSKI 1952
lower right: HRUBE NA CYRHLI
 
After World War II and his forced departure from Vilnius, Ludomir Sleńdziński settled with his family in Kraków in 1945, where he took up the chair of freehand drawing at the Faculty of Architecture of the Kraków University of Technology. He remained associated with the university for many years; from 1948 to 1956 he served as its rector, and until his retirement in 1960, he educated a large group of architects. The depicted scene, featuring a figure resting in the shade, is an excellent study of architectural composition, combining academic technical rigor with painterly nostalgia. The drawing may have been created during one of the artist’s plein air sessions with students or during his summer stays in Zakopane.

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Ludomir Sleńdziński (Vilnius 1889–Kraków 1980)—painter, sculptor, and educator, a leading representative of the so-called Vilnius School. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg under the guidance of D.N. Kardowski. His graduation work was the painting *Idyll*, purchased in 1916 for the Academy’s collection. He spent the years of World War I in Yekaterinoslav and Uman. From 1920 onward, he lived in Vilnius, where he was a co-founder and president of the Vilnius Society of Visual Artists, and from 1925, a professor of painting at the University. He traveled to Italy and France on several occasions; he also visited Spain, England, the Middle East, and Africa. From 1945 onward, he lived in Kraków, where he headed the Department of Drawing and Sculpture at the University of Technology. The artist’s diverse body of work, shaped within the tradition of Russian Neoclassicism and drawing on both Vilnius painting of the first half of the 19th century and Italian Renaissance art, included figural compositions, portraits, murals, and sculptures.