Oil on canvas, signed and dated l.d. "W.Majewski 09".
Dimensions in frame: 65x76 cm (50x62 cm)
Władysław Majewski (Proszowice 1881 - 1925 Warsaw) Polish painter. He graduated from St. Anne's Gymnasium in Cracow, after which he probably took up studies at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow, although he is not listed in the school's records. On 25.10.1901 he entered the drawing class of Johann Caspar Herterich (1843-1905) at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he lived and worked presumably until 1914. He was a member of the Munich Society of Fine Arts. From Munich he traveled several times to Italy and Paris. He spent the time of World War I in Russia, and after it ended he settled in Sosnówka near Wolomin, from where he commuted to Warsaw, where he had his own studio. From 1921 he taught painting at the Wojciech Gerson School of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He was a member of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts and Group 12 - Majewski painted landscapes, portraits, still lifes and flowers. He created under the influence of Impressionism and German Art Nouveau. During his stay in Munich, he painted Bavarian landscapes and rural landscapes - primarily from the Jizera Valley and the Tyrol. In Poland, he created landscapes of Podhale from the Poronin area, in the 1920s. - from near the Niemen River. His works are in the National Museum in Warsaw.
