Zygmunt Balk “La corniche – Marseille”, 1916
Description
Oil on wooden board, signed and dated lower left "Balk 916"
Framed: 40x49 cm (33x43 cm)
Zygmunt Balk (Lviv 1873 - 1941 Lviv) – painter and stage designer, father of the poet Henryk Balk. He started his apprenticeship in Lviv in the studio of the theater decorator Jan Düll (1839-1901) and in the Lviv Industrial School. He was educated in Vienna, Berlin, Leipzig, Munich and Dresden. From 1895 he designed decorations for Lviv theaters. He also created wall polychromes. At the international exhibition of theatrical scenery in Rome in 1913, he was awarded a gold medal for decorations to operas by Richard Wagner. He also dealt with easel painting. In 1911, at the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Lviv, he exhibited Italian landscapes (from Rome and Capri). At the Spring Salon in 1914, he presented "Jerusalem" which received very good reviews.
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