Etching, 202 x 156 mm (print)
Signed in pencil under the engraving: Stara piosenka L Kowalski
Asking price 300
Estimate 400 - 500
Leon KOWALSKI
1870 Kyiv - 1937 Krakow
He studied at the Murashka Painting School in Kyiv, and in 1891-1893 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Luszczkiewicz, Unierzyski and Wyczółkowski. In 1894 he studied in Munich with Raupp and in Paris with Laurens, Constant and Girardot. In 1905 he returned to Poland. In 1917 he founded the Polish School of Fine Arts in Kyiv. He painted religious and genre scenes, landscapes, flowers and portraits. He also worked with woodcuts and lithography. He exhibited his works at TPSP and TZSP.
