Dimensions: 63 x 90 cm
signed and dated l.d. 'Włodzimierz Łoś. 1878'
Origin
Hampel auction house, Munich, April 2022
private collection, Poland
Biography
Włodzimierz Łoś began his studies in painting, thanks to a private scholarship from R. Sanguszko, at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow, where in 1870-1872 he studied under Władysław Łuszczkiewicz. In 1972 he went to Munich and there initially studied at the Academy under Otto Seitz, and later, from 1874, in the private studio of Jozef Brandt. He remained in Munich permanently; he was a well-known figure in the Polish artistic community centered in Munich. He painted mainly genre scenes set in the landscape of Podolia and Ukraine, in which he almost always placed horses. These included fairs, hunting and traveling episodes, as well as battle scenes painted exclusively for commissions. Because of the subject matter, these works found buyers easily, with many making their way to America. He was also an illustrator, and his drawings were featured in the Illustrated Weekly, the Spikes, the Universal Weekly and the Wanderer. He exhibited his works at the Kunstverein in Munich, and from 1873 his paintings also appeared in national exhibitions: in Krakow, Lviv and Warsaw.
