Aleksander Augustynowicz „Kościeliska Valley”
Description
Watercolor on paper, signed and described lower right: „Augustynowicz dol. Kościeliska”.
Framed: 37,5x45,5 cm (24x32 cm)
Aleksander Augustynowicz (Iskrzynia 1865 - 1944 Warsaw) was a Polish painter, active between 1865-1944 in Poland. He completed his secondary education in Rzeszów, in the following years of 1883 to 1886 he studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he was led by Feliks Szynalewski, Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, and Jan Matejko. To complete his studies he moved to Munich, and participated in artist travels to Italy and Hungary. In 1890, he moved to Lwów (today Lviv in Ukraine; then Poland) where he began his artist career. He spent time in Zakopane between 1914 and 1921, in 1921 he moved to live in Poznań, where he already had a settled position within the local artists, as during World War I he exhibited his paintings with the Society of Artists. In 1925, he became a member of the Society of the Incentive for Fine Arts (Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych) in Warsaw. In 1935, in Poznań he celebrated his fiftieth anniversary of creativity, during which his artworks were put in a retrospective exhibition. After the start of World War II he moved to Warsaw, where he was killed during the Warsaw Uprising.
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