Dimensions: 68 x 51.5 cm
signed l.g.: 'Józef Mehoffer'.
on the reverse a paper ownership sticker with a description of the painting and its bibliography, stamp with the number: '15'
Provenance
Collection of Wanda and Eugeniusz Pietrusiński, Warsaw, from 1943 to the 1960s/70s. (gift from the artist)
private collection, Kraków
Exhibited
Józef Mehoffer, National Museum in Cracow, November-December 1964
Jozef Mehoffer group exhibition, Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Cracow, November-December 1945
Literature
Józef Mehoffer, catalog of a group exhibition, National Museum in Cracow, Cracow 1964, p. 91, cat. no. 102 (as "Flowers in vases on a table covered with red fabric")
Jozef Mehoffer and Jan Książek group exhibition. Exhibition of artistic textiles by Helena and Stefan Galkowski and Polish porcelain art "Ćmielów", exhibition catalog, Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Kraków, Kraków 1945, p. 4, cat. no. 26 (as "Autumn flowers")
Biography
He was a painter, graphic artist, decorator, stage designer and educator. He studied painting in 1887-94 at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow under Władysław Łuszczkiewicz and Jan Matejko, while simultaneously studying law at the Jagiellonian University. He continued his studies at Parisian universities: Académie Julian, Académie Colarossi (under P. - J. Blanc, G. Courtois) and École des Beaux-Arts (under Léon Bonnat). After his studies in 1894-96, he alternated between the country, Paris and Switzerland. For his design of stained-glass windows for the Freiburg collegiate church, he was awarded first prize in an international competition (the stained-glass windows were completed until 1934). In 1896 he settled in Cracow, and from 1900 he was a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts. He was a member and co-founder of the Society of Polish Artists Art (1897). He painted decorative portraits, symbolic compositions, landscapes and still lifes.
