Sketchbook and other memorabilia of painter Ludomir Benedyktowicz.

[BENEDICTOWICZ Ludomir - a set of memorabilia concerning the person of the painter]. XIX/XX century.
The set includes:
1. sketchbook form. 24x30 cm in half cloth binding, 21 pages (numbered by hand in upper right corner). On the back of the front pasteboard notes in ink with technical information about the paintings (e.g. "Format of the canvas for Rifleman 69-83", "Size of the outer frame for Girl with Berries 105-159", "Format of the canvas for Orca 96-194"). On the pages of the pages of the book are inscriptions and sketches in pencil, crayon and ink. Binding rubbed and stained, block cracked, several pages loose - copy with clear traces of exploitation.
2. two group, family photos with the artist in uniform. Photos form. 13x18 cm. On the back of one of them an inscription in pencil: "Lviv, 1926 April".
3. four photos depicting the interior of the artist's apartment in Lviv. One of them depicts the painter in full body. Photographs form ca. 12.5x17 cm, 14x9 cm.
4. four photographic reproductions depicting, among other things: the artist with his family, from the time of his studies in Munich, with his son Bogdan.
5. Six photographic reproductions of the artist's works, including "Over the grave of an insurgent" - oil on canvas from 1873, 104x156.2 cm. On the back of this photograph a typed inscription: "'Over the grave' /of an insurgent/ - oil painting of larger size. Former property of the City Gallery in Lvov - perhaps returned to Warsaw".
Two photographs with small cracks on margins, others in very good condition.
L. Benedyktowicz (1944-1926) - painter, critic, poet, forester, chess enthusiast and meritorious activist in the field of its popularization; second lieutenant of the Polish Army, knight of the Order of War Virtuti Militari. Participant in the January Uprising of 1863, in which he lost both hands during a skirmish with Cossacks. Despite his disability, he took up painting, which was made possible by a special device of his own design worn on the forearm of his right hand, into which a brush, pen or charcoal was inserted. He studied with Wojciech Gerson and at the Warsaw Drawing Class, later also at the Munich Academy and Jan Matejko's School of Composition in Cracow. He exhibited his paintings, including at TPSP in Cracow and Warsaw. The main theme of his work was landscape - trees, forest views, sunrises and sunsets. He also painted genre scenes and portraits, as well as paintings with themes from the January Uprising.