Antoni De BRADE (1887 - 1973), Mountain stream
oil, canvas pasted on cardboard
49 x 62 cm
signed A. de Brade
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with M. Kotarbinski and P. Wielonski (1910-1914) and at the St. Petersburg Academy (1915). Before the war he made an artistic journey through China, Japan, India and Africa. In Vladivostok he had his exhibition. Paintings from that time were lost in Kiev during the October Revolution, of which he was a participant.In 1921 he returned to Poland and lived in Katowice. After the war he settled in Lower Silesia - in Jawor and then Świdnica, doing creative and pedagogical work. Among other things, he painted portraits, nudes, still lifes, flowers, landscapes (e.g. of Gdansk and Podkarpacie), studies of people (including highlanders and fishermen), but above all paintings of marine subjects. He was a member of the "Zachęta" group, with which he exhibited, also abroad.
