Mieczyslaw Reyzner, Wedding PORTRET, 1887

63,4 x 46,2 cm - pastel, paper pastel, paper, 63,4 x 46,2 cm (oval; in light of passe-partout)

signed p.d.: Mieczyslaw Reyzner | 1887

Mieczyslaw Reyzner (the artist's name was sometimes spelled also: Rajzner, Reisner, Reisner; Lvov 1861 - Lvov 1941) wwas educated at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts; in 1880-86 he was also in Munich. After his studies, he returned briefly to Lviv, from where he left for Paris in 1888. There he had his own studio at 70bis, rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs in Montparnasse. He participated in the Paris World Exhibition in 1889, in the official Salons (1889-1893, 1895, 1896), and sent his paintings to international exhibitions in Munich, Berlin, Lille and Vienna. In the summer, he traveled to Brittany by sea, and also visited Belgium, Holland and Denmark. He returned to the country in 1896, stayed in Goluchow for nearly six months, and later settled permanently in Lviv. He traveled frequently to Hutsul, Podolia or Podhale, painting numerous landscapes. He exhibited most often at the TPSP in Lviv, but also at the TPSP in Krakow, the Krywult Salon and the TZSP in Warsaw, as well as, among others, in Czerniowce, Ternopil, Lodz, Sanok, Bochnia. Critics emphasized both the diversity of subjects taken up by the artist and the variety of stylistic conventions of his painting. Reyzner was a renowned portraitist; his idealized, "graceful female poses and headpieces" were popular, but he also painted, highly regarded, realistic portraits and studies of old women (Three Grandmothers, Praying Women). He was involved in landscape painting (travel views, including Breton and Tatra), and was fond of painting flowers. A larger collection of his paintings is in the Lviv Art Gallery.