Dimensions: 26 x 34.5 cm
Signed and dated p.d.: 'St. App. 1939'
On the reverse a paper sticker: 'STANISŁAW APPENZELLER | ATTACHÉ DE LA LÉGATION DE POLOGNE' and an inventory sticker
Biography
Stanislaw Appenzeller, known as Stan Appenzeller, was born in Menton. At the age of eight he was already painting, mainly watercolors to begin studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1918 in the class of Wladyslaw Jarocki, and then with Eugeniusz Zak. In 1936, he organized an exhibition of works by members of the ZAP Bloc in the halls of the castle in Rapperswil, giving rise to the Museum of Contemporary Poland. For his work he received a bronze medal in 1938 at the Salon of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts. In 1955 he settled in the Provençal town of Seillans, where he became friends with Max Ernst-one of the greatest representatives of Surrealism, who lived in the town. In Seillans, the Maison Waldberg houses a collection of more than 800 of Appenzeller's late works. The presented nude is one of the few canvases present on the Polish market. The painting betrays the excellent workshop skills of the artist, who, despite his fascination with expressionism and strong colors evident in the works from the French collection, was able to equally skillfully operate the traditional form of communication, soft modeling of light and line.
