Tadeusz Wanski (1894 Środa Slaska - 1959), "Port on the Motlawa River," 1930s.

gelatin-silver print, vintage print/barite paper
Dimensions: 17.9 x 23.8 cm
Inscribed on the reverse: 'Nr. 1 | Port on the Motława'
on the reverse the artist's stamp

Origins
collection of Mariusz Kowalski, Poland
collection of Jakub Kowalski, Poland

Exhibited
"Tadeusz Wanski. Photographs 1930-1957", Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz, 20.04-20.05.2008; Czestochowa Museum, Czestochowa, 2.07-17.08.2008; City Museum of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, 3.09-30.09.2008; Walery Rzewuski Museum of the History of Photography in Krakow, Krakow, March 2009.

Biography
He became interested in photography in 1922, and already a year later won a bronze medal at the Light Exhibition in Poznan. He was a member of the Society of Photography Enthusiasts in Poznan from 1926, and president of the Society from 1930. From 1947 a member of the PTF in Warsaw and Gdansk, from 1949 of the ZPAF. Before the war, he co-founded the photographic life in Poznan. His photographs - mainly landscapes - are characterized by mystery; the works, thanks to artistic procedures such as haze, give the impression of being unreal and fairy-tale-like. One of the representatives of pictorialism. Participant in many national and international exhibitions.