Szymon BUCHBINDER (1853 - 1908), Head of a woman, 1881

lithograph, paper; 22 x 16 cm (light frame, oval), 36 x 30.5 cm (framed); signed on plate p. d.: S. Buchbinder. The engraving comes from the album "Kraków - Zagreb" (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Koło Artystyczno-Literackiego w Krakowie, 1881), from the printing house Zaklad Litografii Artystycznej Aureliusz Prusz

Szymon Buchbinder (6.01.1853 Radzyń Podlaski - 1908? Berlin) - Polish painter of Jewish origin. Son of a provincial painter and decorator, brother of Josef Buchbinder, who probably art-educated his younger brother. In 1869-1871 he studied at the Drawing Class in Warsaw, while in 1873-1878 he studied at the Vienna Academy, and in 1879-1882 at the School of Fine Arts (SSP) in Cracow in the studio of Jan Matejko. The author of primarily small-scale historical and genre paintings in the type of Dutch painting, as well as portraits, in 1874-1883 he participated in the exhibitions of the TZSP in Warsaw and the TPSP in Cracow, relatively small painting output; see SAP vol. 1 pp. 267-268.