FRANCIS SIEDLECKI, WIREMAN. POWSINOGA DRUCIARZ, 1930

32.5 x 24.8 cm - pencil, watercolor, paper pencil, watercolor, gold and silver paint, paper, 32.5 x 24.8 cm

signed l.d.: Franciszek Siedlecki

on the so-called back of the sticker (print, ink, stamp):



AUTHOR Franciszek Siedlecki | TITLE OF WORK Druciarz| TYPE OF WORK watercolor | PRICE 140 | Signature Fr. Siedlecki. On the sticker the number in blue crayon: 586;


39525 | Author Siedlecki F | 39525 | Title povsinoga druciarz | execution aquatint | Price |Flat | Date [...] 1937;


17976 | Author Siedlecki Franciszek | 17976 | Title Druciarz | execution of aqua | Price 140 | Owner | Date 18 KW 1931.



Below a fragment of a detached sticker of the Municipal Art Gallery in Lodz.

At the lower edge a sticker (print): Enclosed 1882 (...)nia pasS (...) | drawings, photogrfii etc. Emil Ru (...) | (based on Ev. Mat. 17-19 on Saturdays studio closed

P.g. in blue crayon number: 586; at lower right in red crayon twice underlined 7560; l.d. in blue crayon number 7560



Image mentioned and exhibited:


Kazimierz Czarnecki, Franciszek Siedlecki, [in:] Słownik artystów polskich i obcych w Polsce działających: malarze, rzeźbiarze, graficy, T. 10: Sa-Się, ed. U. Makowska, Warsaw 1916, p. 441.
Guide of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw: Great Spring Exhibition, 1931 no. 64 (May), p. 19, cat. no. 155.
Guidebook of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw, 1937, no. 122 (April), p. 19, cat. item 132.




Painter and printmaker, representative of Symbolism; also set designer and art critic. Graduated from the law department of the Jagiellonian University (1892); studied drawing at evening courses at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow. From 1893 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, then from 1894 at the Académie Colarossi in Paris. From 1898 to 1901 he stayed in Rome. After returning to Poland, he lived in Cracow and Warsaw. He was a regular contributor to the magazine "Chimera", "Liberum Veto" and (from 1910) the monthly "Sphinx", and in 1911 became the artistic director of the magazine "Sztuka". He belonged to the TZSP, and was a founding member of the Society of Friends of Graphic Arts, established in 1912. He spent the years of World War I in Dornach near Basel. Associated with Rudolf Steiner and the Anthroposophical Society, he collaborated in the construction of the Goetheanum as head of the stained glass studio. From 1919 he lived in Warsaw, where he co-organized the Association of Polish Graphic Artists, and from 1930 was editor-in-chief of the magazine "Grafika". He participated in numerous exhibitions in Poland (in Cracow at the TPSP from 1900; in Warsaw from 1901 at the TZSP and the Salon of A. Krywult) and abroad (including Florence, 1922; Stockholm, 1923; Rome, 1925; Brussels, 1925; Budapest, 1926; Padua, 1931; Tokyo, 1930; Buffalo, 1931). He also participated in the Salon of Independents (1900, 1907) and the Autumn Salon (1906) in Paris. In 1928, a solo exhibition of the artist's works was held at the TZSP in Warsaw. In 1929, at the General National Exhibition in Poznań, he was awarded the Grand Silver Medal, and in 1932 he received an award from the Ministry of Religion and Public Enlightenment for lifetime achievement. Siedlecki - who was friends with, among others, S. Przybyszewski, E. Munch and Z. Miriam Przesmycki - was the author of portraits and compositions with symbolic themes. The influence of the art of G. Moreau or O. Redon is also evident in his work. As a graphic artist, he was mainly involved in etching, as well as lithography.