Marceli HARASIMOWICZ, KROŚCIENKO

Oil, cardboard, 25 x 34 cm, signed l.d.: Krościenko VII MH [bound monogram:] [1]923, on the reverse: Krościenko nad Dunajcem Marceli Harasimowicz 1923.

In 1867 he started school in Zurich, where his parents emigrated after the January Uprising of 1863; he then attended the École polonaise des Batignolles in Paris, and between 1872 and 1873 the Higher Real School in Cracow. From 1873 to 1879 he studied at the School of Drawing and Painting in Cracow, and from 1880 to 1881 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under historical painter Carl Wurzinger. In 1882 he entered the Painting Class at the Königliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, where he studied with Wilhelm Lindenschmit until 1885. In 1885 he settled in Lviv and began working in the studio of Andrzej Bronislaw Grabowski. In 1888 he founded a drawing school for women, later transformed into a general school of painting and sculpture. From 1881, he regularly participated in the exhibitions of the Lviv and Cracow TPSP. He also exhibited at the TZSP in Warsaw and in Munich and Vienna. At first he painted mainly portraits and genre scenes. After 1890, he mainly created landscapes.