Dimensions: 70 x 50 cm
Signed p.d.: 'W. Pawliszak'
on the painting loom two stamps of Marceli Leoniak's framing workshop in Warsaw, on the frame a paper sticker of the same workshop and barely legible notes
Biography
Waclaw Pawliszak began his painting studies at Wojciech Gerson's Drawing Class, continued them at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow under Florian Cynk and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, and in 1883- 85 in the composition department under Jan Matejko. He completed his artistic studies in Munich and Paris, where he received a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition in 1889, thanks to which his paintings also appeared in art markets in Berlin and London. After returning to Poland, he settled in Warsaw; he traveled a lot - he visited Algeria, Morocco, Tunis, and lived in Rome for a year. The artist's favorite subjects were motifs related to the East-he painted genre scenes, battle scenes, horses and warriors, also court scenes and portraits. He died shot as a result of a personal dispute with sculptor Xawery Dunikowski.
