Dimensions: 48 x 62.5 cm
Signed and dated p.d.: 'M. G. Wywiórski 1905'
on the canvas two fragmentarily preserved exhibition stickers of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland in Warsaw, numerical descriptions
Origins
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland, Warsaw, 1906
Literature
Janina Wiercińska, Catalogue of works exhibited at the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the years 1860-1914, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków 1969, p. 423
Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland for the year 1906, Warsaw 1907, p. 16.
Biography
Studied art in 1883-1887 in Munich under Karl Raupp and Nikolaus Gysis, as well as in the studios of Jozef Brandt and Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski. From 1904 he was active in Poznań, where he was a member of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts and the Society of Artists. He exhibited in Poznan, Krakow, Warsaw and Lvov, as well as in Berlin, St. Petersburg, Munich and Kiev. He collaborated on several panoramas: with Julian Fałat, Wojciech Kossak, Antoni Piotrowski and Jan Stanisławski on "Berezina"; with Jan Styka - on painting "Bem in Transylvania"; with Wojciech Kossak, Józef Ryszkiewicz and Zygmunt Rozwadowski - on composing "Battle of the Pyramids". The dominant theme in the artist's work was realistic landscapes with particular emphasis on luministic effects.