Dimensions: 47 x 61 cm
Signed l.d.: 'M. KULESZA'
Origins
private collection, Warsaw
Biography
For a short period of time he studied in Warsaw with Wojciech Gerson, and then in 1899/1900 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow with F. Cynk. From 1900 he studied at the St. Petersburg academy under Dmitri Kardovsky - he graduated in 1909. Until 1914, he worked in the mosaic studio under Professor Nikodem Sylvanovich. Ca. 1912 he traveled around Europe; he was in Sofia, Florence, Naples, Paris and visited Belgium. Circa. 1919 he settled in Vilnius, where he was primarily engaged in pedagogical work. He exhibited in Vilnius, Warsaw, Poznan and Lviv. He was a co-founder of TOwarzystwa Niezależnych Artystów Sztuk Plastycznych, established in 1931, and its president. He was a popular portraitist, also painted historic architecture, most often interiors, also painted still lifes and flowers.