Size: 80 x 65.5 cm
signed and dated l.d.: 'WBartoszewicz | 1952'.
on the reverse a paper exhibition sticker of the Bureau of Art Exhibitions 'Arsenal' in Poznań and two fragmentarily preserved exhibition stickers of the Central Bureau of Art Exhibitions in Poznań, described on the painter's loom: 'Husarska 4 m.4 - POZNAŃ'.
Origins
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych "Arsenał", Poznań, 1952 (?)
Biography
In 1923 he graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Poznan and that same year began his studies at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts. He studied painting in the studio of Tadeusz Pruszkowski and printmaking with Władysław Skoczylas and Edmund Bartłomiejczyk. He was a co-founder and president of the fourteen-member "Warsaw School" group, established in 1929, which included Eugeniusz Arct, Teresa Roszkowska, Michal Bylina, Waclaw Palessa, Jadwiga Przeradzka, brothers Menasze and Efraim Seidenbeutl. The first exhibition of the "Warsaw School" took place at Warsaw's Zachęta in 1930. Later he took part in all the group's exhibitions at home and abroad. He also exhibited at the Zacheta, IPS and ZAP Block salons, and in 1936 participated in an exhibition in Berlin. He was a co-founder of the "Ars Christiana" association. After World War II, he organized cultural life in Kielce, initiating the establishment of a number of cultural institutions. In 1948 he settled in Poznan. He was involved in easel and wall painting (polychromes of churches in Greater Poland and the Old Market in Poznan), drawing and book illustrations. He is the author of a book dedicated to artists from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, "Buda na Powiśle" (published 1966).
