Henryk WEYSSENHOFF (1858-1922), Eagle (1920)
oil, canvas
100 x 125 cm
Signed and dated p.d.: Henryk Weyssenhoff 1920
Krosno: sticker of TPSP in Lvov
Object with expertise by Katarzyna Lomnicka, M.A.
Defects in paint layer
Painter; son of a January insurgent, he spent his childhood with his family in Kongur in the Urals. From 1874 he studied with W. Gerson at the Warsaw Drawing Class, from 1880 to 1885 he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy, and in 1889 he went to Munich, where he took advice and guidance from A. Wierusz Kowalski. From 11903 to 1904 he stayed in Paris, after which he settled in the family estate in Russakovichi, Belarus. During World War I, forced to leave the estate, he moved to Warsaw. He was primarily a landscape painter, the creator of realistic in form, atmospheric landscapes. An avid hunter, he repeatedly made forest animals or fowl the heroes of his compositions. Weyssenhoff's paintings enjoyed critical and public acclaim, being awarded medals at exhibitions (a silver medal at the 1900 Paris exhibition). The artist was also an illustrator of books - he made, among other things, a series of drawings for his cousin Jozef Weyssenhoff's novel Soból i pann
