Oil, dicta; 51.5 x 74 cm
Signed p.d.: St.Prauss / 1927
Printed sticker on the reverse: Polish Military Mission to the Allied Control Council in Germany, Consular Department
Asking price 3600
Estimate 4500 - 5000
Stanislaw PRAUSS
1902 Kielce - 1967 Kielce
Painter. In 1924 he began studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Wojciech Weiss. In 1925 he moved to the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, where he was a student of Witold Pruszkowski, Miłosz Kotarbiński and Władysław Skoczylas. in 1928 he returned to Kielce to complete his studies in 1930 in Cracow, again under Weiss. He exhibited his works many times, including an individual exhibition at the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Kielce. He cooperated with the Warsaw School Association of Artists. Also a painter was his twin brother, Ryszard, who died in 1955.
