Oil on canvas, signed l.d. "M. HANEMAN", inscribed on the reverse "Jan Grabowski of Krosnice".
Dimensions in frame: 88x75 cm (68x55 cm)
Max Hanemann (Lodz 1882 - 1944 ?) - a student of Leon Wyczółkowski and Teodor Axentowicz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (1907-8, 1911-13, 1919-20) and a student of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts from 1916. He lived in Zakopane. In 1925 he traveled to the Middle East - to Palestine and Egypt, from which he brought back numerous landscapes. He painted views of the Tatra Mountains, genre scenes and portraits. Displaced by the Germans from Zakopane, he returned to his hometown of Lodz, where he most likely died. He was a member of the Podhale Artists Association. He exhibited works at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw, the TPSP in Krakow, Lviv, Lodz and Zakopane, and Budapest. The paintings are in the collections of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, in the Tatra Museum in Zakopane and in private collections.
