Maciej NEHRING (1901-1977), Canal Grande (1938)

Maciej NEHRING (1901-1977), Canal Grande
watercolor, paperboard
50 x 65 cm
signed and dated p.d. Maciej Nehring 38

Maciej Nehring (Warsaw 1901 - Warsaw 1977) - painter and printmaker, prominent watercolorist. Beginning in 1920, he studied at the City Drawing School in Warsaw, and later studied at the State Art Industry Schools in Bydgoszcz (1921-1923) and Cracow (1923-1924), and at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1924-1928). He was the founder and, in 1935-1939, president of the "Group of Watercolorists" and also a member of the Bloc of Professional Artists. In 1933-39 he was head of the Studio of Watercolor and Applied Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He was primarily a landscape painter, but also painted portraits, especially female portraits. In 1934 he was awarded second prize in the exhibition "The Most Beautiful Female Portrait" at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw. He created entire series of works depicting, for example, views of the Belvedere, Plock, the Market Square in Kazimierz, motifs from Tunis, France, Italy and Croatia. He also painted many mountain landscapes, especially of the Tatra Mountains. He exhibited many times at the Warsaw Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts and in Cracow, and in 1929 took part in the General National Exhibition in Poznan. He also participated in exhibitions abroad - in London, Stockholm, Paris (1937), New York. In 1938 he had a solo exhibition in Amsterdam, and in 1947 exhibitions in Gdynia and Lodz. His works are in the National Museum in Poznan, the L. Wyczółkowski Museum in Bydgoszcz, the Museum of the Polish Army in Warsaw and the Ossolineum in Wroclaw, among others.