Oil on canvas, signed and described on the reverse: "Cz. Rzepinski Mazury"
Dimensions in frame: 69x79 cm (55x65 cm)
Czeslaw Rzepinski (Strusow 1905 - 1995 Krakow) - Polish painter, educator, representative of Polish Colorism. From 1926 to 1929 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Władysław Jarocki, Wojciech Weiss and Felicjan Kowarski. From 1929 he continued his studies in Paris among the Capists under the tutelage of Jozef Pankiewicz. Close to the colorists and later, he joined the Zwornik grouping in Cracow. In 1937, together with Jozef Jarema, he founded the Aleksander Gierymski School of Painting in Katowice. Appointed a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1948, he served as the university's rector four times (1954-1967). He painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits and figural compositions. He exhibited in Paris at the Autumn Salon and had dozens of solo exhibitions at home and abroad. In addition to easel painting, he was also involved in drawing, printmaking and wall painting. Shaped under the influence of Bonnard's painting and associated with the current of Polish colorism, he used a light color palette, in his compositions he achieved special effects by skillfully combining cold and warm colors. His artistic career did not develop more fully until after the war, when he continued to paint with color, using the manner of combining concrete objects with almost abstract space. In the late 1940s, he was inspired by the work of Henri Matisse and Georges Braque. Later, in a colorist style, he tried to paint social realist paintings. In 1953, he made polychrome paintings of two tenements in Gdansk's Old Town.
