Konstanty Mackiewicz "Landscape with the river"
Description
Oil on plywood, signed lower right "K.Mackiewicz".
Framed: 89x77 (70x55) cm
Konstanty Mackiewicz (Małoryta near Brześć 1894 - 1985 Łódź) – Polish painter and stage designer. He studied in the years 1913–1919 at art schools in Odessa and Penza. In the years 1919–1921 he worked as an opera stage designer and lecturer at the School of Artistic Crafts in Yekaterinburg. Then he attended Wassili Kandinsky's studio in Moscow for a year. In 1922 he settled in Lviv, where he dealt with the stage design of the opera, collaborating with Leon Schiller. From 1926 he lived in Łódź. There, he practiced painting and designed scenery for the Municipal Theater. After World War II, he collaborated with Henryk Ryle in designing puppets for the performances of the Arlekin Puppet Theater. He took part in over 150 painting exhibitions in Poland and abroad.
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