Dimensions: 94 x 151 cm
signed on the underside: 'Antoni Kozakiewicz | München 1875'.
on the reverse a paper inventory sticker with the number: '9302' and an auction sticker
Origin
Agra Art, December 2000
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Künstlerhaus, Vienna, 1875
Salon, Paris, 1876
Literature
Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants, Exposés au Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris 1876, p. 140, cat. no. 1130
Biography
Studied from 1857 to 1866 at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow under W. Luszczkiewicz and F. Szynalewski. From 1868 he studied at the Vienna Academy. From 1871 to 1900 he lived in Munich, and after returning to Poland in Warsaw and Szczawnica. He painted realistic genre scenes, portraits, landscapes, paintings with historical content, motifs from the January Uprising - in which he participated. Awarded medals at exhibitions, including those in Vienna, Munich and Berlin. Very popular in Germany, Austria, the United States and England.
