Dimensions: 48 x 59 cm
Inscribed on the reverse by Wojciech Kossak: 'I state that this | study is the hand of my | late Father | WKossak | 1904'.
State of preservation
expert opinion of Kazimierz Olszanski dated August 16, 1988
Origin
private collection, Poland
Biography
From about 1842 he studied at the Faculty of Law at the University of Lviv. At the same time he studied drawing with Jan Maszkowski. In 1850-52 he lived alternately in Lviv and Warsaw. In 1852 he went to Vienna, where he studied for a short time in the studio of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. At the end of 1852 and the beginning of 1853 he was in Paris for the first time, where he settled for several years in 1855. In 1860 he returned to Warsaw. In 1869, he took up studies in the Munich studio of Franz Adam. He also remained in close contact with Jozef Brandt. In the fall of 1869, he settled permanently in Krakow, from which he rarely left. He had an artistic wanderings in Eastern Galicia. He spent the turn of 1872/73 in Munich again. He exhibited his works in Lvov, Krakow, Warsaw (at TZSP and the Krywult Salon), Lodz, Poznan and abroad: in Paris, Munich, Dresden, Berlin and Vienna. The most important motif in the artist's paintings was the horse, depicted in historical scenes, battle scenes depicting the marches of armies as well as in genre scenes - hunting, riding, racing. He also painted - especially after his period of Paris and Munich studies - scenes of everyday life of simple folk and horse portraits. His favorite technique was watercolor, which allowed him to quickly capture the movement and shape of the scene taking place.
