Dimensions: 28 x 28.5 cm (clear passe-partout)
signed in pencil at the bottom: 'Lew Dobrzyński'
Condition
framed
Biography
Lev Dobrzynski was born in St. Petersburg in 1907. He received his early education in Russia. Soon after the end of World War I, he made his way with his family to the country, to the family estate of Loosha, where he settled permanently. He was educated in Vilnius at the J. Lelewel Gymnasium,then at the Faculty of Fine Arts of St. Batory University, which he gloriously graduated in 1936 as a certified artist-painter. A founding member of the Vilnius Group, established in 1937. He died on November 26, 1937 at the Łosza estate, where he was also buried. At a posthumous exhibition in Vilnius in 1938, 134 paintings were exhibited, including the following. Symbolic figural composition (thesis), landscapes, portraits, sketches for decorative paintings, in addition, drawings and graphics. He participated in exhibitions: Vilnius Exhibition of Graphics and Sculptures by S.Horno-Poplawski in Vilnius -1934 ; International Exhibition of Woodcuts in Warsaw -1936; WTAP Exhibition at IPS in Warsaw-1937; Vilnius Group - Exhibition in 1939; Exhibition of Graphics at the Museum of Art in Vilnius -1941; Posthumous Individual Exhibition in 1938 in Vilnius. He also participated in the Vilnius Graphics Subscription in 1934-1935, 1937.
