Vincent WODZINOWSKI, PRAYING GIRL

Oil, cardboard; 68 x 49 cm
Signed p.d.: W. Wodzinowski
Estimate 8000 - 9000
Auction 220, 04.03.2023
Wincenty WODZINOWSKI
1866 Igołomia- 1940 Kraków
WODZINOWSKI began his studies in painting in 1880-1881 at the Warsaw Drawing Class under W. Gerson; then, from 1881 to 1889, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow under W. Łuszczkiewicz, L. Loeffler F. Cynk and J. Matejko, among others; and from 1889-92 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under A. Wagner. In 1896 he settled in Swoszowice and became a professor of painting at the Higher Courses for Women at the Cracow Technical and Industrial Museum. He befriended Ignacy Korwin-Milewski, a well-known collector and patron of the arts, and from 1892 to 1907 worked mainly on his commission. In the earlier period he painted portraits, later mainly folk types and genre scenes from the life of a village near Krakow.