Dimensions: 27 x 23 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'Ignacy Pinkas | Praha 1925 | Thunovská ulice'.
Exhibited
"Ignacy Pinkas. Výstava obrazů z Prahy", Němcův Umělecký Salon, Prague, 1926
Literature
"Ignacy Pinkas. Výstava obrazů z Prahy," exhibition catalog, Prague [1926], item 24.
Biography
At the age of eighteen, he and his family moved to Cracow, where he worked casually doing various jobs including being an actor in a touring theater. Since childhood he showed a talent for art, when in 1907 he painted a portrait of Archduke Franz Joseph, the amount he received from the sale allowed him a year later to become a free student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. His lecturers were Stanisław Dębicki and Jacek Malczewski, and after three years he left for Paris. After 1920, the painter focused on his art, traveling to Prague, Warsaw, Lviv and Vilnius, as well as to the Baltic Sea and France. He was a member of the Cracow Section of Artists of the Legionary Union.
