Apoloniusz Kędzierski, ŁOWICZANKA, 1913

33.0 x 31.5cm - watercolor, gouache, pencil, paper pasted on cardboard signed p. d.: A. Kędzierski | 1913 | Krężce



The interest in folklore, characteristic of Young Poland painters, is strongly present in the work of Kedzierski, a proficient watercolorist, whose particular sensitivity to light and color was formed under the influence of an exhibition of Impressionists, which the young artist saw in Munich in 1888. A frequent subject of his watercolors are portraits of country girls, including Lowicz women, dressed in colorful costumes.

Apoloniusz Kedzierski (Suchedniow 1861 - Warsaw 1939)-a painter, watercolorist, draughtsman, illustrator and decorator-was one of Warsaw's most popular artists. A pupil of Józef Brandt in Orońsko, Wojciech Gerson and Aleksander Kamiński at the Warsaw Drawing Class, he further studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Nikolaus Gysis from 1886-1889. After his studies, he settled permanently in Warsaw, from where he often went on plein-air painting trips. In 1902 he traveled to Belgium, France, Italy, Vienna and Budapest. He was a member of the Polish Artists' Society "Sztuka". He painted landscapes and genre paintings, still lifes and "heads" of girls. His painting was subject to stylistic changes - from Realism to Art Nouveau. He was fond of illustration, producing, among other things, illustrations for Reymont's Peasants (published by Geberthner and Wolf in 1928). He also collaborated with many Warsaw magazines. He designed furniture and ceramics, and made church polychromes. A large set of the artist's works burned down in his studio during the first days of the Warsaw Uprising.