Ludomir BENEDICTOWICZ

PASTEL WITH GUESTS ON A POLE Pastel, paper; 49 x 68 cm

Signed p.d.; L. L. Benedyktowicz

Asking price 7000

Estimate 10000 - 15000

Ludomir BENEDYKTOWICZ

1844 Swiniary - 1926 Lviv

Painter, critic, poet, January Uprising insurgent. Wounded during a skirmish with Cossacks, he lost both hands. Despite his disability, he took up painting, made possible by a special device of his own invention, attached in place of his missing right hand. He studied under Wojciech Gerson and at the Warsaw Drawing Class, later also at the Munich Academy and in Cracow under Jan Matejko. He exhibited his paintings, including at TPSP in Krakow and Warsaw. The main theme of his work was landscape - trees, forest views, sunrises and sunsets. He also painted genre scenes and portraits, as well as paintings with themes from the January Uprising.