Aleksander NOWAKOWSKI

Oil, cardboard; 21 x 10.7 cm

Signed d.: Moгилa / OH (tied); Moгiлa / Oл. Новакивский / VI.14. / 1907

Asking price 5000

Estimate 6000 - 7000

Auction 202, 15.05.2021

Oleksa NOWAKIWSKI (Alexander NOWAKOWSKI)

1872 Obodiuka - 1932 Lviv

Ukrainian painter; began his painting studies in Odessa, where he studied under F.F. Klimenko in 1888-1892. He then took up studies at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow under J. Unierzyski, L. Wyczółkowski, J. Fałat and T. Axentowicz, J. Stanislawski (in 1907 he took part in an exhibition of his students). He completed his studies in 1904. In 1900-1913 he lived in Mogiła near Cracow from where he went on plein-air painting trips to Poznan and the Carpathian Mountains. In 1913 he moved to Lvov, invited by Father Metropolitan Andrzej Szeptycki, who from then on was his patron. He settled in the former home of Jan Styka (now the O.Novakivsky Museum). In 1923 he opened a painting school in his studio. He exhibited a lot - both jointly with various associations of Ukrainian and Polish artists, including in 1911 with the group "Zero", in 1912 with the Society of Polish Artists "Art", many times at TPSP in Krakow and TZSP in Warsaw, where a solo exhibition of his works was held in 1932. In the "Cracow" period, he mainly created landscapes with vivid colors and expressive painting textures. After 1913, already in Lviv, he also painted portraits, genre scenes of Hutsul life, images of heroes of Ukrainian legends, still lifes, flowers, allegorical and religious compositions.