lithograph, paper; 20 x 15.5 cm (light framed, oval), 30 x 25.5 cm (framed, passe-partout); signed on the plate p. d.: S. Buchbinder; and in pencil "she attested" - illegible signature. The engraving comes from the album "Cracow - Zagreb" (Cracow: Publishing House of the Artistic and Literary Circle in Cracow, 1881. Lithograph made in 1881 in the Artistic Lithography Department of Aureliusz Pruszyński in Cracow.
Szymon Buchbinder (6.01.1853 Radzyń Podlaski - 1908? Berlin) - Polish painter of Jewish origin. Son of a provincial painter and decorator, brother of Jozef Buchbinder, who probably educated his younger brother artistically. 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.
Aureliusz Pruszyński (9.09.1847 Kasinka Mała Powi. Limanowa - 22.04.1904 Kraków).
Cracovian lithographer, owner of the highly regarded Aureliusz Pruszyński Artistic Lithography Workshop in Cracow founded in 1873 at 17 Pijarska Street; from ca 1902 the owner of the workshop was his son Zenon Pruszyński (see SAP vol. 8 pp. 92-93). In the factory of A. Pruszyński, since the end of the 19th century, leading artists of Cracow reflected their graphic works in lithography (including posters), including the famous "Teka Melpomena"