KAMIEŃSKI Antoni - Spirit-Revolutionary. Sketches from years past 1905-1907 [Warsaw 1907]. Published....

KAMIEŃSKI Antoni - Spirit-Revolutionary. Sketches from years past 1905-1907 [Warsaw 1907]. Publishers of the "Tygodnik Illustrowane". folio, plates 10. opr. fn. decorated with preserved booklet cover.
Abrasions of the cover, good condition inside. Ten drawings depicting the Warsaw events of 1905. The album "enjoyed - due to its subject matter - wide popularity, especially among proletarian activists" (J. Wiercińska "Art and Book", War. 1986).
A. Kamienski (1860-1933) - studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg from about 1881 to 1886, when he returned to the countryside and took care of the family estate. Due to the loss of his estate in 1890, he moved to Warsaw, where he began drawing commercially for magazines. In 1891 he went to Paris. He studied sculpture and painting at the Académie Julian and continued to draw, submitting his work to Illustration and Le Monde Illustré, as well as London's The Graphic. In 1894 he returned to Warsaw, where he soon began a permanent collaboration with "Tygodnik Illustré". It lasted until 1912.He spent the years of World War I in Switzerland (as a Russian subject, he was detained at the Austrian border when he wanted to enlist in the Legions). He returned to Poland in 1919 with General Jozef Haller's army. He stayed alternately in Warsaw, Cracow and Paris. The main domain of his work was drawing in ink, charcoal, gouache, crayons and pastel.