Zygmunt Rozwadowski, IN THE WAY

38.0 x 52.7 cm - oil, cardboard signed p.d.: Z. Rozwadowski

On the reverse l.d. and p.d. (stamp): ARTYSTYCZNA | introligatornia | JADWIGA ZARĘBSKA | Warsaw, Emilii Plater Street [.]; l.g. (in pencil): No. 781; beside (in ink): 491; below (in pencil): 53 x 38; also p.g. rectangular sticker with number (in pencil): R 4-1.





Zygmunt Rozwadowski (Lvov 1870 - Zakopane 1950) studied from 1883 to 1890 at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow, including under Jan Matejko, and from 1891 to 1893 in Munich, at the private school of Anton Ažbé. While still a student, he made his debut at TPSP in Krakow, exhibiting under the name Jordan. After graduation, he lived in Lviv - he taught at the Industrial School, exhibited a lot, and collaborated on the decoration of the halls of the Lviv theater. During World War I, he fought in the Legions. After World War II, he settled in Zakopane. He painted mainly battle paintings from the Napoleonic era and the November Uprising, genre scenes with horse motifs, less frequently portraits and landscapes. He participated in painting popular panoramas - Raclawice with Jan Styka and Wojciech Kossak, Golgotha, Panorama of Transylvania and Martyrdom of Christians with Styka, and Battle of the Pyramids with Kossak. Together with Tadeusz Popiel, he painted the dioramas Branki Tatar and the Battle of Grunwald.