Emil Lindemann (1864 Warsaw - 1945 Ozorków near Lodz), Preparations for St. John's Night

Biography
Studied at Wojciech Gerson's Drawing Class in Warsaw. While studying, he received a letter of commendation from the St. Petersburg Academy as part of a state competition of drawing schools. In 1888-89 and 1889-90 he studied with Jan Matejko at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow. From the autumn of 1890 he was in Paris, where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, at the Académie Julian under William Adolphe Bouguereau and at the Académie Colarossi under Raphael Collin. In 1897 he traveled to Naples, Rome and St. Petersburg; in Rome he attended the Royal Institute of Fine Arts. His main domain was wall painting and its conservation. He also painted small-scale oil paintings and watercolors, mainly landscapes of Vilnius, Volhynia, the environs of Warsaw, Nałęczów, Krynica, as well as vedutas of Polish and European cities. At the end of his life he painted mostly flowers. He exhibited in Warsaw: the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, the Krywult Salon, the Artistic Salon, the Garlinski Salon, the Cracow Society for the Friends of Fine Arts, Vilnius, Lviv, Lublin, Katowice, Czestochowa, Poznan, Gdynia, as well as abroad: in Berlin, Darmstadt, London and Chicago.