Noakowski Stanislaw Witold (1867-1928), Gothic Room, 1920

Lavendered ink, brush, ribbed paper (Frangle); 36.5 x 50 cm; signed p.d. monogram bound SN. On the back a fragment of an academic drawing. Work after conservation.

Noakowski Stanislaw Witold (1867-1928): painter, draughtsman, architect, one of the most important artists of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries; studied in St. Petersburg; worked in Moscow, among others, in l. 1899-1918, he was a professor of art history at the Stroganov School, and from 1906 a professor at the School of Fine Arts; made numerous artistic journeys around Europe; after 1918, he returned to Poland, from 1923 he was a professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology; realized cycles of imaginary architectural views in the landscape (cycles Polish Architecture. Compositional sketches, 1920; Polish castles and palaces, 1928); in his work he paid attention mainly to the problem of careful, sometimes meticulous composition.