Dimensions: 37 x 69 cm
signed and dated l.d.: 'WA Malinowski 1872'
On the reverse a paper sticker with inventory number: '493'
Origin
Hargesheimer auction house, Dusseldorf, September 2024
Biography
Painter and theater decorator, trained in his father's workshop, probably also in Vienna and Munich. He studied as a theater decorator in Warsaw, and from 1864 worked in Vienna, in the decorating department of the imperial theaters. From 1873 to 1890 he served as chief decorator of the Warsaw Government Theaters: Grand, Variety and Summer Theaters. He educated several students, including Jozef Guranowski and Karol Klopfer. In the field of painting, he was an unparalleled landscape painter, and possessed a remarkably easy painting technique. His ability to capture the peculiarities of Polish nature and the Polish sky was considered the greatest virtue of his landscapes, while his excessive meticulousness in painting was considered a disadvantage. His favorite motifs were studies of forest landscapes, rural landscapes, views of ruins and mills. His works were exhibited at TPSP in Cracow (he exhibited a total of about 90 oil paintings there), as well as at TZSP and the Krywult Salon in Warsaw. He was the author of polychromies in churches in Zyck and Osmolin. Currently, many of his works are in museum collections, including the National Museum in Warsaw.
