Kazimierz Stabrowski, EASTERN SCENE

50,0 x 68,0cm - pastel, paper glued on plywood, 50 x 68 cm

signed p.d.: K. Stabrowski



"And the paintings, coming out from under his exceptionally soft brush, show everything not as it would be presented to us in life's prose, but somehow different, more wonderful, as if bathed in a mythical well of Eastern fairy tales," wrote Kazimierz Kalinowski about the artist's work (K. Stabrowski: Silhouette of a painter-poet, Poznań 1927, p. 10). Stabrowski first visited the Middle East in 1892, at which time he went to Jerusalem to paint his competition painting, which he was to present at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg to become its graduate. The Orient fascinated the artist so much that it became the destination of many of his travels. The artist visited Tunisia, Jerusalem, and was also in Bukhara, Tashkent and Samarkand. The offered pastel was created during one of these trips.



Kazimierz Stabrowski (Kruplany near Novogrudok 1869 - Garwolin 1929) - painter, draughtsman, teacher; from 1887 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. During his studies he received medals and decorations several times. In 1893 he traveled to Palestine in connection with, painted for his diploma, a painting of Muhammad in the desert, for which he later received a great gold medal. Despite his graduation, from 1895 he still trained in the studio of I.J.Riepin. In 1897 he went to Paris and attended the Académie Julian there, working under B.Constants and J.P.Laurens. In 1898 he returned to St. Petersburg. In 1900, at the Universal Exhibition in Paris, he received a great silver medal for his painting Silence in the Countryside. He also participated in other international exhibitions, including Munich (1901), Venice (1903). Since 1902 he was a member of the Association of Polish Artists Art. In 1903 he moved to Warsaw, where in 1904 he became the first director of the School of Fine Arts, being one of the initiators of its establishment. In 1909-1913 he traveled a lot - he was in France, Ni