Dimensions: 72.5 x 105 cm
signed and dated p.d.: 'Włodz. Nałęcz 1925'
Inscribed on the reverse: 'W. N. (fragment crossed out)'
Biography
In 1885-93 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg under Pavel Petrovich Chistiakov and Valery Yakobi, specializing in landscape painting in the studios of Ivan Aivazovsky and Lev Lagorio. He then made scholarship trips to Belgium, Sweden, Norway and England. He also studied for a short time in Düsseldorf. He lived in Paris, and from 1906 in Warsaw. In 1909 he sailed by ship along the Vistula River as far as Danzig to explore the Baltic coast. From then on he devoted his work and social activities to spreading knowledge of the Polish sea and the Pomeranian region. In 1920 he purchased a property near the lighthouse in Rozewie, where he built a villa and studio. He was primarily a landscape painter. He was particularly attracted to views of mountains and the sea. At the beginning of the second decade of the twentieth century, he repeatedly stayed at plein-air painting workshops in Kazimierz Dolny on the Vistula River.
