Józefa KRATOCHWILA-WIDYMSKA

FEMALE NUDE LYING DOWN
Oil, cardboard; 105 x 71 cm
Józefa KRATOCHWILA-WIDYMSKA
1878 - 1965Studied painting in Vienna, where she stayed until 1918. After World War I, she lived in Lviv and continued her artistic studies there at the Department of Decorative Arts and Artistic Industry at the State Technical School, including printmaking under L. Tyrowicz. She took an active part in the artistic life of the city, organizing courses for artists at the premises of the Industrial Museum. She mainly practiced graphic arts. She often depicted flowers, both in graphics and in oil and pastel. She also painted landscapes, genre scenes, nudes, portraits and religious paintings. She exhibited constantly in Lvov from 1919-1940, as well as in Warsaw at "Zachęta", Poznan, Krakow at TPSP, Zakopane and Kielce. The painter's foreign shows were mainly exhibitions in Florence, Vienna, Kiev and Kharkov.
Asking price 1200
Estimate 3000 - 4000
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