Stanislaw Żarnecki/Izydor Goldfinger (1877-1956), "Chapel in Zwierzyniec - Kraków," 1932.

Image "St. Margaret's Chapel in Zwierzyniec".
Krakow, 1932
by Stanisław Żarnecki (Izydor Goldfinger) (1877-1956)
Oil on canvas (duplicated)
Signed in lower right corner: St. Żarnecki 1932
Painting after conservation. Canvas duplicated with numerous scoring in the part of the sky and grass in the foreground.
Wooden frame.
Dimensions: 32 x 41.5 cm, with frame 39 x 48.5 cm.

Stanislaw Marian Zarnecki proper Izydor Goldfinger (born May 31, 1877 in Cracow, died January 27, 1956 there) - Polish painter and graphic artist of Jewish origin. He attended St. Anne's Gymnasium in 1881. Studied in 1897-1905 at the Cracow School of Fine Arts under Teodor Axentowicz, Jozef Mehoffer and Jozef Unierzyski was twice awarded medals. During his studies he changed his religion his godfather became the then rector of the Academy of Fine Arts Julian Fałat. In 1914 he left for Vienna, during World War I he served in the Austrian army painting numerous military portraits. In 1918 he returns to Krakow where he sets up his own painting studio. He receives a commission from the Cracow City Hall to paint portraits of presidents: Jozef Friedlein, Feliks Szlachtowski and Ferdinand Weigl, which still hang in the Presidential Hall of the Krakow Magistrate. He exhibited his paintings at the Krakow Society of Friends of Fine Arts, among others. He became famous as a portraitist and creator of landscapes, while less frequently he painted flowers and still lifes. He was the husband of Anna née Meduska, a graduate of the Jagiellonian University and a teacher, and the father of Tadeusz Żarnecki, an engineer - a professor at the Warsaw University of Technology.