Dimensions: 101 x 81 cm
Signed l.d.: 'M. G. Wywiórski'
on the painter's loom, stamp of Leopold Hess's Berlin warehouse of painting accessories and notes, on the frame a fragmentarily preserved paper exhibition sticker and notes
Origin
collection of the Krzywoszynski family and its heirs, Greater Poland (according to family tradition, the painting was purchased directly from the artist before World War I)
Exhibited
Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, Warsaw, date unknown (?)
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.
