Dimensions of the painting: 25cm x 28.5cm ;
Dimensions with frame: 29.5 x 33.5 cm
Technique : Watercolor on paper
Author: Wacław Wąsowicz (August 25, 1891 in Warsaw - October 6, 1942 in Wilanów)
A view of the water tank in Saxon Park from the side of Saxon Square. The building, designed by Henryk Marconi, was built in 1852-54 and with its form refers to the temple of Vesta in Tivoli. It served as a water tower and reservoir for water, which was supplied from the Vistula River by steam engines - the network supplied the European Hotel, City Hall and Mostowskich Palace, among others. The network was closed in 1889, and its role was taken over by the Lindley waterworks. The waterworks building did not suffer war damage, although it was severely damaged - reconstructed in 1948, it was taken over by the National Theater in 1957. The building in the painting is framed in a simplified, blurred form - the trees around the pond are in the foreground.
Wacław Wąsowicz (August 25, 1891 in Warsaw - October 6, 1942 in Wilanów) - Polish painter and graphic artist, including interior and ceramic decorator. A student at the Wojciech Gerson Drawing School in Warsaw, the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (as a student of Jacek Malczewski) and the Warsaw School of Fine Arts. A member of the Formists (Polish Expressionists) and the "Rhythm" and "Ritual" groups. In Wąsowicz's early work, one can see the influence of Cézanne and folk art; flattened, geometrized forms were often decorated with floral ornaments. Since 1925, one can notice increasingly frequent landscape-park and idyllic motifs - he recorded his impressions from trips to Gdansk, France, the Netherlands and the Balkans in the form of landscapes. From Dutch painting he borrowed luministic effects, and from Italian painting - Renaissance monumentalism.Condition as in photos.
