Description
Oil, canvas; 40 x 66 cm
Signed l.d.: A. Mroczkowski / Munich 1885
On the reverse, acknowledgment of authorship - a 1956 ruling by Stanislaw Dabrowski.
Painting exhibited, reproduced: Hotel Bristol, Warsaw, Ostoya Auction House, Auction No. 9, 12.03.2000, item 30.
An exceptional painting in the painter's oevre. Of high artistic stature, in Munich style. Different from the author's later, Krakow-based work.
Aleksander MROCZKOWSKI
1850 Krakow - 1927 Stubno
Studied at the School of Fine Arts in Krakow, including with Wł. Łuszczkiewicz and J. Matejko, and at the Munich Academy with Alexander Wagner and Otto Seitz. In 1889, he traveled to Switzerland, Italy and France. From 1890 he lived permanently in Cracow. He wandered around towns, villages and landed estates painting portraits and genre scenes. However, he was most fond of painting landscapes. He was particularly fond of trips to the Tatra Mountains; he painted views from various parts of the mountains, which often appeared in exhibitions.
Asking price 32000
Estimate 40000 - 45000
