Watercolor on paper, signed p.d. "A. Międzybłocki".
Dimensions in frame: 44x51 cm (26x33 cm)
Adam Miedzybłocki (Gryszkańce 1885 - 1956 Gdansk) - Polish painter. Around 1899 he became a pupil of the Drawing School in Vilnius, and then went to Cracow, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1908. His professors were Teodor Axentowicz, Leon Wyczółkowski and Józef Pankiewicz, and he graduated in 1913, receiving a gold medal for outstanding achievement during his studies. After the outbreak of World War I, he left for Tbilisi, where he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts there. He traveled to Baku and around Armenia. Around 1917 he went to Constantinople, where he also studied painting techniques. In 1919 he settled in Warsaw, and a year later volunteered to fight in the Polish-Bolshevik War. In 1922 he settled in Vilnius, where he created and professionally was a drawing teacher. In 1924-1936 he was employed as a draughtsman at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, in the Department of Descriptive Anatomy, headed by Prof. Michal Reicher. He was a member of the Vilnius Society of Visual Artists and the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts with whom he exhibited his works. After World War II, as part of resettlement, he settled in Gdansk.Adam Miedzyblocki's work includes watercolor vedutas of Vilnius, Warsaw, Krakow and Gdansk. He also painted portraits, whose manner of painting was modeled on the work of Teodor Axentowicz.
