Jozef Graczynski, Top of the Cottage

oil, cardboard, size 34x49cm, signed p.d. "j.Graczyński", on the back a fragment of an exhibition sticker with annotation in ink "Józef Graczyński; Top of the Cottage; oil".

Jozef Graczynski (Czempin 1866 - Poznan 1939) studied painting in 1886-1891 at the courses of M. Jaroczynski and M. Krajewski in Poznan. In 1889 he was in Berlin, after 1891 he stayed briefly in Munich, and also traveled to Dresden and Krakow. In 1901 he was a co-founder of the Artists' Association in Poznań, and also belonged to the TPSP and the Painters' Association. He exhibited in Poznań, Bydgoszcz, Cracow, Warsaw and in Paris and Berlin. He painted portraits, genre scenes and landscapes, including numerous landscapes of Wielkopolska. The artist's works can be found, among others, in the collections of museums in Bydgoszcz and Leszno.