Jozef Krzyzanski, Uplift - landscape with water mill

oil, canvas, size 50 x 60 cm, , signed .and dated l. d. "Jozef Krzyzanski 1948"

Jozef Krzyzanski (1898 - 1987) is an artist born in Podolia, educated in Cracow at the Academy of Fine Arts in the studios of St. Kamocki and Teodor Axentowicz, where he received his diploma in 1924, and then in 1925-29 in Paris under Jozef Pankiewicz. After returning to Poland, he settled in an estate near Poznań and associated his personal and artistic life with this city. In Paris he was associated with the Capists, members of the so-called "Paris Committee": Piotr Potworowski, Jozef Czapski, Jan Cybis and became known as a post-impressionist - colorist. In the interwar period, he was active as an educator and creator of such art groups as the Wielkopolska "Plastyka", the Cracow Association of Artists "Zwornik" and "Jednoróg". He repeatedly exhibited his works at home and abroad. Throughout his artistic life he was faithful to his youthful fascinations and artistic assumptions. He left behind a great legacy, but among his known paintings, relatively few are from his earlier period. This serene rural landscape with a mill standing over the waters of a stream agitated by a discharge perhaps presents the Trzaskow area, where the author owned an estate. The formal and color solutions of the work clearly indicate the artist's connections and experiences with the work of Jozef Pankiewicz and the painting tradition of the colorists, of whom he was a prominent representative. The landscape was created during the German occupation. The artist presented it 1946 at the spring exhibition of ZPAP in Poznan. The painting is signed "J. Krzyzanski 1942", bottom.