Zbigniew Pronaszko, Still life with a bouquet of roses

Still life with a bouquet of roses, oil, plywood, size 39 x 30, 5 cm, signed "Z.Pronaszko" approx. 1950.

Zbigniew Pronaszko (Derebczyn near Jampol (Żychlin in Podolia ?) 1885 - Kraków 1958) - painter, graphic artist, sculptor and stage designer - began his artistic studies in Kyiv, from where he soon moved to Kraków to study with Teodor Axentowicz and Jacek Malczewski at the Academy of Fine Arts there from 1906-1911. During his studies he traveled to Vienna, Munich, Florence and Paris. He spent the years of World War I in Zakopane. In 1917 he was a co-founder of the Polish Expressionist group (renamed Formists in 1919). After the war, from 1923 to 1925, he taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Stefan Batory University in Vilnius. He then lived in Cracow, teaching at the Free School of Painting of L. Mehofferowa, and from 1945 also at the Academy of Fine Arts. He painted landscapes, still lifes, figural compositions and portraits. He exhibited since 1907; among others in Cracow, Lviv, Warsaw, Poznan and also in Pittsburgh (1931), Venice (1932), Paris (1922, 1928, 1937) and Vienna (1928), Brussels (1935). He was a member of the Society. Polish Artists "Art" and participated in its exhibitions. He also exhibited with the groups "Zero" (1909), "New Generation" (1932), and belonged to the group "Zwornik".
The presented painting, according to Dr. Maria Golab (MNP), dates from 1952-1955 and was one of two presented at an exhibition of Zb.Pronaszko's paintings at the Warsaw Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in 1957 as ""Roses II" and included in the catalog of this exhibition under No. 57 (dated 1955). The painting is also mentioned in the painter's monograph and dated 1952 by its author, Helena Blumówna.










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