Dimensions: 68 x 49 cm
signed and inscribed on the underside: 'To Andrzej Teslar | w przyjaźni l. gottlieb'
on the reverse a paper exhibition sticker and the stamp of the Warehouse of Painting Accessories of Róża Aleksandrowicz in Cracow
Work dedicated by the artist to Józef Andrzej Teslar (1889-1961), soldier of the Polish Legions, major of the Polish Army, poet, translator and art critic.
Origins
collection of Józef Andrzej Teslar (1889-1961), Paris
Wejman Gallery, Warsaw
institutional collection, Poland
DESA Unicum, May 2019
private collection, Warsaw
Exhibited
Leopold Gottlieb, Wejman Gallery, Warsaw, 2018.
Leopold Gottlieb, Jan Chmielinski, Galerie Zak, Paris, 1934 (?).
Literature
Leopold Gottlieb, exhibition catalog, Wejman Gallery, Warsaw 2018, pp. 32-33
Biography
Outstanding Polish painter, at the same time one of the most interesting representatives of the so-called "Ecole de Paris". A pupil of J. Malczewski and T. Axentowicz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, he continued his studies in Munich under Ažbe. In 1904 he worked and exhibited in Paris, with breaks - in 1910 he held a chair of painting in Jerusalem, and between 1914 and 1918 he served in the First Brigade of the Legions, maintaining constant contact with the country. In the 1990s, his work was recalled by exhibitions at Warsaw's National Museum - the collections of Ewa and Wojciech Fibak, Boleslaw and Lina Nawrocki, as well as "Kisling and Friends" and "Paris and Polish Artists1900 - 1918." He was the younger brother of painter Maurycy Gottlieb, born after his death.
