Dimensions: 40 x 56 cm
signed and dated below: 'Leonard Winterowski | Warsaw 1923'.
on the reverse a paper auction sticker
Origins
Agra-Art auction house, December 2021
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, as well as 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, usually episodes from the 1920 war, for which he used sketches and studies drawn and painted during his military service.