Stanisław Rejchan "Red-haired beauty"
Description
Watercolor on paper, signed "St.Rejchan"
Framed: 56x49 cm (38x30 cm)
Stanisław Józef Rejchan (Lwów 1858-1919 Kraków) Painter, illustrator, and draftsman. From 1877 to 1880, he studied at the Vienna Academy under Christian Griepenkerl and August Eisenmenger, followed by studies in Paris from 1882 to 1884 under Léon Bonnat and Jean-Paul Laurens. During his time in Paris, he began working as an illustrator for various French, English, German, and Polish periodicals, and also illustrated books. From Paris, he traveled to Germany, England, and Italy, spending a year in Florence. In 1897, he returned to Lviv and took up a professorship in drawing and decorative arts at the State Industrial School. During the First World War, he lived in Vienna. He focused primarily on pastels, creating portraits of women, genre scenes, nudes, and floral studies; he also participated in the decorative work for the Municipal Theatre in Lviv.
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