"Village Church" - 18x24 cm in light passe-partout(made of green velvet),oil on cardboard,1947.
Antoni Kierpal (1898-1960)
Polish painter. He took his first lessons in drawing and painting at the School of Drawing and Anatomy of Szczepan Andrzejewski, from 1920 for two years he studied mural painting at the State School of Decorative Arts and Artistic Industry under Professor Jarczewski. In 1922 he went to Hel for the first time to paint in the open air. From 1926 to 1930 he took private lessons from Maurycy Trębacz, who directed him to continue his studies in Munich; in 1934 he founded the Art Salon on Hel, which existed until the outbreak of World War II.
