Bolesław SZAŃKOWSKI

Oil, cardboard; 74 x 61.5 cm

Signed l. wed. Szańkowski / 1925

On the back an exhibition sticker of the Municipal Art Gallery in Lodz with a description of the work.

Provenance: property of the portrayed, later owned by his son Mieczyslaw. Acquired from the latter for the Warsaw collection.

Bronislaw Choynowski (1895 Słucz - 1968 Warsaw),landowner, owner of Zakrzewo estate (Szczeciński county), took part in the 1920 war, after World War II, among other things, administered estates where he hid members of the Home Army. Father of Mieczyslaw, a psychologist and philosopher.
Boleslaw Szankowski (1873 Warsaw - 1853 Fischbachau) outstanding Polish portraitist. Studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow, at the Munich Academy under Johann C. Herterich (1894) and at the Académie Colarrosi and Académie Julian in Paris (1896-1898). He settled permanently in Munich, from where he made numerous trips to France, Belgium, England and Scotland. He painted many representative portraits of people from the aristocracy and European ruling families. He portrayed, among others, Ignacy Paderewski, the Radziwill family, the Potocki family, the imperial family in Berlin and the royal family in Romania. He was also eager to paint idealized portraits of beautiful and refined ladies, as well as more intimate, graceful children's portraits; among others, he repeatedly portrayed his daughters Ada and Helena. He participated in many exhibitions in Germany and Austria; he often sent paintings to national exhibitions. In 1928 he had a large solo exhibition at Warsaw's Zachęta Gallery.

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