Dimensions: 35 x 46 cm
signed with bound monogram p.d.: 'AK.
Inscribed in pen on the reverse: 'Marya Kieszkowska (?) | HTKunert' and ownership stamp: 'H. T. KUNERT | ŁÓDŹ, Piotrkowska 87'.
Provenance
from the historical collection of the Kunert family, Lodz
Literature
Jerzy Zanozinski, Aleksander Kotsis 1836-1877, Cracow 1953, p. 82 (ill.), cat. no. 39
Jerzy Zanozinski, Aleksander Kotsis, Lodz 1951, p. 31 (ill.)
Tadeusz Dobrowolski, Art of Cracow, Cracow 1950, p. 425 (ill.)
Biography
Painter associated with Krakow, one of the forerunners of realism in landscape and genre painting in the Malopolska artistic community. In 1850 he began studying painting at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow. In 1860 he received a government scholarship for further studies in Vienna; he returned to Krakow in 1862. He painted mainly genre scenes, depicting the everyday life of peasants and highlanders, village children and studies of the heads of villagers and highlanders. He also painted landscapes of the Krakow suburbs and mountain-themed views.
