Mikhail Gorstkin Vygotsky, A LANDSCAPE WITH A RIVER

75.4 x 100.3cm - oil, canvas signed p. d.: M. G. Wywiórski

On the reverse, on the crossbar of the loom, the stamp of the warehouse of painting supplies: LEOPOLD HESS | Kunstmaterialien | Berlin W., Genthiner-Strasse 29.; on the lower strip of the loom on the left, a rectangular stamp in German: Kulturamt | der Ganhauptstadt Posen | Invent. No. 2595/40; on the right a stamp in German with the number (in black ink): 2595/40.



Michal Gorstkin Wywiórski (Warsaw 1861 - Berlin 1926) studied in Munich from 1883 to 1887; at the Academy under professors Karl Raup and Nikolaus Gysis, and simultaneously in the private studios of Jozef Brandt and Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski. In 1884 he made his debut at an exhibition at the TPSP in Cracow, and also showed his works in Munich, where in 1894 at the Glaspalast international exhibition he was awarded a medal for his painting From the Lithuanian Forest. In 1895 he moved to Berlin, invited by Wojciech Kossak and Julian Fałat to work on the panorama Berezina (1895-1896). He settled in Berlin for a longer period of time, and then stayed in Greater Poland and Warsaw. He also collaborated with Jan Styka on the panorama Battle of Sibiu (1897), and in 1900, together with Kossak, he traveled to Spain and Egypt to make plein air sketches for the intended panoramas Somosierra (not realized) and Battle of the Pyramids (1901). He also traveled to Lithuania, the island of Sylt, Norway, Sweden, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, painted in Amsterdam, the Crimea and the Caucasus. In his early works, strongly influenced by Brandt and Wierusz-Smith, he painted hunting and genre scenes and paintings with Tartars, Cossacks or Cherokees, which brought him success in the Munich art market. Over time, pure landscape, perceived and painted sensitively and fondly, became the chief subject of his paintings.