Stanisław Janowski, W OBOZIE POD PIASECZNĄ, 2. PUŁK, 1916

25,7 x 35,5 cm - gouache, paper 25,7 x 35,5 cm (in light of passe-partout)

Signed p.d.: S. Janowski | Camp near Piaseczno, 1916

On the reverse a sticker (print, ink): WARSAW, APRIL 1917 [crossed out, in blue crayon: Lvov, September, 1917] | L. PORZ | L. CATAL. | AUTHOR Janowski Stanislaw | TITLE In the camp near Piaseczno, 2nd Lt. | TECHNIQUE watercolor [sic!] | OWNER Towerski Artur | OWNER'S ADDRESS Lvov, Lesna Street.

Picture exhibited:

- Exhibition of the Polish Legions, Lvov, IX - X 1917, cat. no. 223.



A separate place in Janowski's work is occupied by Legion themes. During World War I, the artist took part in the battles of the First and Second Brigades of the Polish Legions. During his service, he created mostly watercolors and drawings, and less often oil paintings, depicting scenes of combat and camp life. He later presented them at six Legion exhibitions. Among them was the composition In the Camp near Piaseczno, created in 1916 during the Volhynia campaign. In museum collections and on the art market one also encounters photographs from the camp near Piaseczna, which the artist took at the time.



Stanislaw Janowski - painter, illustrator, stage designer; brother of painter Bronislawa Rychter-Janowska. In 1882-1886 he studied at the Cracow School of Fine Arts under F. Szynalewski, I. Jablonski and W. Luszczkiewicz, and in 1887-1890 at the Munich Academy under J. C. Herterich and A. Liezen-Mayer. After his studies, he settled in Cracow, from where he traveled to Italy several times. In 1900 he participated in an open-air study organized by S. Hollósy in Nagybanya, Transylvania. From 1901 to 1910 he was married to writer and actress Gabriela Zapolska, with whom he moved to Warsaw in 1903 and Lviv in 1905. There, in 1912, he was appointed professor at the Free Academy of Arts. During World War I he served in the Legions. Since 1921 he lived permanently in Cracow, from where he went on a trip to Tunis (1921). He was a member of TPSP in Krakow and Lviv, TZSP in Warsaw and ZZPAP; he exhibited a lot.