Watercolor, gouache, paper; 28.5 x 35.5 cm
Signed l.d.: L.Wintorowski 916
On the reverse: 1. fragment of an Austrian newspaper with information about the Austrian victory over the Russians on May 6, 1916; 2. stamp of the Press Office of the Ministry of War in Vienna with the date 1916; in crayon: Titelbild; 4. in pencil: 7477
Asking price 6000
Estimate 7500 - 8000
Leonard WINTOROWSKI (WINTEROWSKI)
1875 Chernivtsi - 1926 Warsaw
Popular painter, battle painter. In 1895-1897 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow; initially under Leopold Loeffler, later under Teodor Axentowicz. In 1896 he received a silver medal for his schoolwork. He then continued his education at the Academy in Vienna, where he went as a scholarship holder of the National Department. He began exhibiting early - he debuted in 1897 at an exhibition at the Krakow Society of Friends of Fine Arts. He also exhibited in Lviv and in Lodz, Vienna and Berlin. During World War I, he served in the Austrian army as a painter-war correspondent. After the war he settled in Warsaw. In the earlier period of his career, he painted portraits, landscapes, genre scenes, religious paintings (St. Stanislaus Kostka of 1912 for the St. Elizabeth Church in Lviv). He also did mural painting (polychromy in the Yaroslavl collegiate church, 1912-13) and book illustration (Twelve legends and legends from under Cracow, Lviv 1899). In the later period, he also painted nudes and, above all, battle paintings; most often episodes from the 1920 war. In doing so, he used his own sketches and studies drawn and painted during his military service. These dynamic battle compositions, painted with panache and bravura, found many willing buyers. Since 1920, the artist lived in Warsaw and exhibited many times at the Warsaw Zachęta Society, where a posthumous exhibition of his works was held at the Zachęta in 1928. In 1929 a similar exhibition was opened in Poznan.
