Dimensions: 48 x 37 cm (inside the mat)
signed lower right: 'Augustynowicz'
Inscribed on the reverse: 'Augustynowicz Aleksander | Prządka Watercolor'
Biography
From 1883 to 1886, he studied at the State School of Fine Arts in Kraków under Feliks Szynalewski, Jan Matejko, and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz. He continued his studies in 1888 in Stefan Hollósy’s studio in Munich. He undertook numerous artistic journeys to Italy and Hungary. He lived in Lviv, Zakopane, and Poznań. He was a member of, among others, the Warsaw Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (Towarzystwo Zachęty) and the Association of Polish Artists (ZAP). In 1896, at the International Exhibition in Berlin, he received a gold medal. His works most often depicted landscapes, portraits, genre scenes, and flowers. The artist’s paintings are housed, among other places, in the National Museum in Warsaw, the National Museum in Kraków, and the Leon Wyczółkowski Museum.
