Dimensions: 79 x 130 cm
Signed, dated and inscribed at the bottom: 'Leonard Winterowski | Warsaw 1921'.
Origin:
private collection, Poland
Biography
Leonard Winterowski is a popular battle painter. He studied in 1895-1897 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow; initially under Leopold Loeffler, later under Teodor Axentowicz. In 1896 he received a silver medal for his schoolwork. He then studied in Vienna, where he went as a scholarship holder of the National Department. He made his debut at an exhibition at the Cracow TPSP in 1897. He also exhibited in Lviv and in Lodz, Vienna and Berlin. During World War I, he served in the Austrian army as a painter-war correspondent. After the war, he settled in Warsaw. In his early period, he painted portraits, views of architecture, landscapes and genre scenes. Later he mainly created battle paintings, most often episodes from the 1920 war, for which he used sketches and studies drawn and painted during his military service.
