Dimensions: 85 x 136 cm (in light passe-partout)
Signed and dated p.d.: 'Juliusz Kossak | 1879'.
Origins
collection of Grazyna Kulczyk
Literature
compare:
Poland. The Power of the Image, exhibition catalog, National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw 2020, p.128
Kazimierz Olszanski, Juliusz Kossak, Wroclaw 1988, cat. no. 430, (il. on separate board)
Stanisław Witkiewicz, Juliusz Kossak, Warsaw 1900, p.1 (il.)
Biography
Initially - from about 1842 - he studied at the Faculty of Law at the University of Lviv, at the same time he studied drawing with Jan Maszkowski. In 1850-52 he lived alternately in Lviv and Warsaw. In 1852 he went to Vienna, where he studied for a short time in the studio of Ferdinand G. Waldmüller, and also visited Hungary. At the turn of 1852/53 he was in Paris for the first time, where he settled for several years in 1855 In 1860 he returned to Warsaw. In 1869 he studied in the Munich studio of Franz Adam, and also remained in close contact with J. Brandt. In the autumn of 1869, he settled permanently in Cracow, from which he rarely left - he made an artistic journey through Eastern Galicia, and spent the turn of 1872/73 in Munich. He exhibited his works in Lvov, Krakow, Warsaw (at TZSP and the Krywult Salon), Lodz, Poznan and abroad: in Paris, Munich, Dresden, Berlin and Vienna. The most important motif in the artist's paintings was the horse, depicted in historical scenes, battle scenes depicting the marching of armies as well as genre scenes - hunting, riding, racing. He also painted - especially after his Paris and Munich studies - scenes of everyday life of simple people and horse portraits. His favorite technique was watercolor, which allowed him to quickly capture the movement and shape of the scene taking place.
