Apoloniusz Kędzierski, ON THE ROAD, ca. 1890

35.5 x 54.5cm - oil, duplicated canvas

Signed l.d.: Kedzierski
On the reverse on the g. loom strip, exhibition sticker (print): EXHIBITION | And why did we go there! | Stanisław Witkiewicz, 1901 | Polish Painters in Munich | District Museum in Suwałki | May 5 - August 31, 2005. Also, on the bottom bar of the frame a sticker of the framing workshop.



The painting exhibited, mentioned and reproduced, among others, in:: - "And why did we go there!" (S. Wyspianski, 1901). Polish Painters in Munich, District Museum in Suwałki 5 May - 31 August 2005;
- Polish Painters in Munich [text by E. Ptaszyńska, Z. Fołtynowicz], Suwałki Regional Museum, Suwałki 2005, p. 124, il.

Apoloniusz Kędzierski (Suchedniów 1861 - Warsaw 1939)-painter, watercolorist, draughtsman, illustrator and decorator-was one of Warsaw's most popular artists. A pupil of Józef Brandt in Orońsko, Wojciech Gerson and Aleksander Kamiński at the Warsaw Drawing Class, he further studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Nikolaus Gysis from 1886-1889. After his studies, he settled permanently in Warsaw, from where he often went on plein-air painting trips. In 1902 he traveled to Belgium, France, Italy, Vienna and Budapest. He was a member of the Polish Artists' Society "Sztuka". He painted landscapes and genre paintings, still lifes and "heads" of girls. His painting was subject to stylistic changes - from Realism to Art Nouveau. He was fond of illustration, producing, among other things, illustrations for Reymont's Peasants (published by Geberthner and Wolf in 1928). He also collaborated with many Warsaw magazines. He designed furniture and ceramics, and made church polychromes. A large set of the artist's works burned down in his studio during the first days of the Warsaw Uprising.