Soter JAXA-MAŁACHOWSKI (1867-1952), "Wawel in Winter," 1938

Watercolor, gouache, cardboard, 50 x 70 cm,
Signed p.d.: S Jaxa / 1938 (letter "J" in signature and date reinforced in black paint).
On the reverse, author's stamp with title and dimensions in ink: Title Wawel in winter / Size 50 x 70 / Price 650 zloty / Soter Jaxa Małachowski / Address / Krakow, Piłsudskiego Street 32.
The painting was purchased in the salon of Desa in Katowice in 1983.




Soter JAXA-MAŁACHOWSKI (1867-1952)
Painter, an outstanding marine painter, originally from the eastern borderlands. he was educated at the drawing school in Odesa, then studied at the Cracow SSP under F. Cynk, I. Jablonski and W. Luszczkiewicz. From 1894 he continued his studies at the Drawing and Painting School in Munich. After returning to Poland, he settled permanently in Cracow, from where he moved to Zakopane for two years. He painted mainly landscapes - seascapes (from the Baltic and Mediterranean Sea - souvenirs from his numerous trips to Italy), views of the Tatra Mountains, nocturnes and backstreets of Cracow, rarely portraits. The most successful were his marine paintings. He painted in oil and watercolor, as well as gouache and pastels. He was a member of TZSP in Warsaw. He participated in many exhibitions in Krakow (here he had several solo exhibitions), Warsaw, Lviv, Lodz, Poznan and Lublin.