Dimensions: 33.8 x 47.2 cm
signed p.d.: 'Józef Mehoffer'.
on the reverse: stamp of Zakład materiałów malarskich ISKRA & KARMAŃSKI, Cracow
Condition
opinion of Elżbieta Charazińska dated June 18, 2009
Provenance
Altius auction house, April 2010 (gallery purchase)
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Legendary Young Poland. Paintings of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries from a family collection, National Museum in Gdansk, June 2-September 10, 2017
Legendary Young Poland. Paintings of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries from the family collection, Podlaskie Museum in Bialystok, November 4, 2016 - February 19, 2017
Literature
Legendary Young Poland. Painting of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries from the family collection, exhibition catalog, Podlaskie Museum in Bialystok, Bialystok 2016, p. 55 (il.), cat. no. 38
Biography
He was a painter, printmaker, decorator, stage designer and educator. He studied painting in 1887-94 at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow under Władysław Łuszczkiewicz and Jan Matejko, while simultaneously studying law at the Jagiellonian University. He continued his studies at Parisian universities: Académie Julian, Académie Colarossi (under P. - J. Blanc, G. Courtois) and École des Beaux-Arts (under Léon Bonnat). After his studies in 1894-96, he alternated between the country, Paris and Switzerland. For his design of stained-glass windows for the Freiburg collegiate church, he was awarded first prize in an international competition (the stained-glass windows were completed until 1934). In 1896 he settled in Cracow, and from 1900 he was a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts. He was a member and co-founder of the Society of Polish Artists Art (1897). He painted decorative portraits, symbolic compositions, landscapes and still lifes.
