Friedrich Pautsch, INSIDE THE FOREST

30.0 x 30.5cm - oil, canvas pasted on cardboard signed p.d.: F. Pautsch



Provenance:

- Collection of Zbigniew Mikulski (1925-2017) in Sankt Gallen, Switzerland;



Reproduced and exhibited painting:

- Returns. The Swiss Collection of Zbigniew Mikulski, exhibition catalog [ed.] N. Pichłacz, M. Skowronska, A. Kielczynska, M. Kardas, Published by Take Care Foundation, Bydgoszcz 2019, p. 76, il;

- Returns. Swiss collection of Zbigniew Mikulski, Bydgoszcz Stanislaw Horno-Poplawski Art Center / Sopot Auction House, Bydgoszcz, 24 May - 31 August 2019;

- Returns. The Swiss Collection of Zbigniew Mikulski, Bolesław Biegas Museum in Warsaw, 9 I - 2 II 2024;

- Returns. The Swiss Collection of Zbigniew Mikulski, Museum of Archaeology and History in Glogow, 18 May - 11 August 2024.





While in Paris in 1901-1907, Pautsch encountered modern currents in art, including Symbolist painting, Post-Impressionism and Expressionism. He began to experiment with color and form. His paintings are characterized by dynamic brushstrokes and strong, contrasting chiaroscuro. The colors are vivid, saturated; all this gives his works a unique expressiveness and emotionality.

Frederick Pautsch - painter, printmaker and educator - began his studies in painting at Krakow's Academy of Fine Arts under J. Unierzyski and L. Wyczółkowski, and then trained at the Académie Julian in Paris under J.P.Laurens. Starting in 1903, he often traveled to the Hutsul region. In 1906 he settled in Lviv. From 1912 to 1919 he was a professor of painting at the Academy of Art in Wroclaw; from 1919 he headed the School of Decorative Arts and Artistic Industry in Poznan; in 1925 he became a professor at the Cracow Academy. He belonged to the Tow. of Polish Artists "Art" and other creative associations, and participated in many exhibitions. He painted genre scenes from the life of the Hutsul people, religious compositions, portraits, still lifes and landscapes, and in an earlier period also historical paintings.