Description
Watercolor, paper; 37.5 x 38 cm
Signed p.d.: Jozef / Grein (faintly legible)
Asking price 2000
Estimate 2500 - 2800
◙ droit de suite
Auction 209, 29.01.2022
Jozef GREIN
1886 Pobereż - 1956 Warsaw
Conservationist, painter. His ancestors came from England. In 1903-1907 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow with Florian Cynk and Leoan Wyczółkowski. Head of the studio at the Museum of the Polish Army in Warsaw (1920-1932) and the National Museum (1932-1945). From 1945 at the Supreme Directorate of Museums and Monuments Protection. Since 1949 professor at the Faculty of Conservation of the Academy of Fine Arts.