29,2 x 48,3cm - gouache, watercolor, paper pasted on cardboard signed p.d.: Augustynowicz
Aleksander Augustynowicz (Iskrzynia near Krosno 1865 - Warsaw 1944) studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow from 1883 to 1886 under Feliks Szynalewski, Władysław Łuszczkiewicz and Jan Matejko. He then went to Munich, where he studied at the school of Simon Hollósy in 1888. He traveled to Italy and Hungary. From 1890 he lived permanently in Lviv, where, among other things, he worked on the painting decoration of the foyer of the city's Theater. After 1914 he lived in Zakopane, and from 1921 in Poznan. He exhibited extensively, including at the TPSP in Cracow and Lvov and at the TZSP in Warsaw. In 1896, at an international exhibition in Berlin, he received a gold medal for Self-Portrait. He painted primarily portraits, as well as genre scenes, flowers, landscapes of the Tatra Mountains and the Hutsul region. He often and willingly used the masterful technique of watercolor. The artist's paintings were very popular and appreciated by the public.
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