Simon Buchbinder (1853-1908), Woman,1881

lithograph, paper, 20 x 15.5 cm (framed, oval), 30 x 25.5 cm (framed, passe-partout);
Signed on panel p. d.: S. Buchbinder; and in pencil "she attested" - illegible signature

The engraving comes from the album "Cracow - Zagreb" (Cracow: Publishing House of the Artistic and Literary Circle in Cracow, 1881. Lithograph made in 1881 in the Artistic Lithography Department of Aureliusz Pruszyński in Cracow.

Szymon Buchbinder (6.01.1853 Radzyń Podlaski - 1908? Berlin) - Polish painter of Jewish origin. Son of a provincial painter and decorator, brother of Jozef Buchbinder, who probably educated his younger brother artistically. In 1869-1871 he studied at the Drawing Class in Warsaw, while in 1873-1878 he studied at the Vienna Academy, and in 1879-1882 at the School of Fine Arts (SSP) in Cracow in the studio of Jan Matejko. The author of primarily small-scale historical and genre paintings in the type of Dutch painting, as well as portraits, in 1874-1883 he participated in the exhibitions of the TZSP in Warsaw and the TPSP in Cracow, relatively small painting output; see SAP vol. 1 pp. 267-268.

Aureliusz Pruszyński (9.09.1847 Kasinka Mała pov. Limanowa - 22.04.1904 Kraków) - Kraków lithographer, owner of the highly regarded Aureliusz Pruszyński Artistic Lithography Workshop in Kraków established in 1873 at 17 Pijarska Street, from ca 1902 the owner of the workshop was his son Zenon Pruszyński (see SAP vol. 8 pp. 92-93). In the factory of A. Pruszyński, since the end of the 19th century, leading artists of Cracow reflected their graphic works in lithography (including posters), including the famous "Teka Melpomena".