Dimensions: 40 x 15.5 x 20 cm
Signed monogrammed and dated on the base: 'KP 38'
Origin
private collection, Poznań (in the hands of one family since the 1920s)
Literature
Grzegorz Kretkowski, Kazimierz Marceli Piotrowski. An acquainted artist, "Chronicle of the City of Poznań," 2024/1, pp. 299-300, il. 12 (Painters and sculptors, lead editor Magdalena Mrugalska-Banaszak)
Biography
Began studying sculpture under Wojciech Przedwojewski in his hometown of Stanislawow. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow until around 1926, and settled permanently in Poznan in 1926. He presented his works at exhibitions in Warsaw, Cracow and Katowice. He created figural sculptures and portraits, including those of Marshal Jozef Pilsudski and Maria Sklodowska-Curie. About his work he said: "I am a stylist, a classicist. I think it is necessary to return to classicism in art."
