Description
Pencil, paper; 50 x 35 cm
Signed p.g.: 4 mod / £u. W Pochwalski
Wladyslaw POCHWALSKI
1861 Kraków - 1924 Kraków
He belonged to a multi-generational family of Krakow painters with strong artistic traditions. The painter and restorer was the great-grandson of painter Martin, son of painter Jozef Kasper, and brother of painter Kazimierz Teofil. In 1877-1885 he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow under Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, Feliks Szynalewski and Jan Matejko. He took complementary studies in Munich under Alexander Wagner and Otto Seitz (1890-1893). After his studies, he settled permanently in his native Cracow. He worked as a professor of drawing and painting at the Supplementary Courses of the Female School. He took over and developed his father's art conservation and restoration studio, which he ran with his sons Stanislaw and Kasper. From 1907 he worked at the National Museum in Cracow as head of the conservation department. He was primarily concerned with his own works during his studies and early professional activity. These included landscapes and portraits, less frequently genre scenes. He exhibited them at the Cracow and Lviv Society of Friends of Fine Arts The last time he presented his works was in 1905. Asking price 1500
Estimate 1800 - 2000
