"Seashore" , 15x21,5cm,watercolor/crayon on paper,signature d.l illegible.
On the back of the work handwritten signature of the daughter -Property Maria Mokwa-Obertyńska.
A well-known marine painter; between 1907 and 1909 he studied at the academies of fine arts in Nuremberg and Berlin, and at the same time traveled extensively visiting, among others, Sweden, France, Italy, Austria, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia. He was also in Serbia, Greece, Albania. He spent the years 1911-1915 in Istanbul, from where he traveled further to Jerusalem, Persia, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Mongolia, the Caucasus and Tibet. In 1915-1917, called up to the Prussian army, he served as a painter-war correspondent. In 1917 he settled permanently in Sopot. Here he developed a lively artistic activity, taking part in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad (Munich, Berlin, Stockholm, London, Trieste and others). He was the initiator and founder of the construction of the "Maritime Gallery" in Gdynia - a building housing a showroom. The artist's collection of paintings gathered there (about 550 works) was destroyed in 1939.