Bronisława Rychter-Janowska (1868 Kraków - 1953 there), Terrace on Capri

oil, cardboard, 23 x 33 cm
signed l.d." RYCHTER-JANOWSKA/1920
It is the paintings of the places she visited during her numerous travels that constitute the best and at the same time the largest part of Rychter-Janowska's artistic output. Her Mediterranean landscapes are characterized by grace and lightness. They are painted freely, with bold brushstrokes, as if the artist felt Simon Hollósy - her Munich-based teacher of landscape painting - standing at her easel. (...) She spent most of her time in Italy. For her plein air paintings, she chose towns along the Bay of Naples. She recorded her impressions of the places she visited in her paintings. She was leaving in search of
beauty and that's where she discovered it (...) In her diaries she wrote: "the location and surroundings of Naples are so beautiful that working among the nature there could indeed become bearable and spent, and could give dreamers more than one beautiful moment of inspiration." (...). From her travels, in addition to paintings, sketches and drawings, she also brought back notes in which she described the places she visited. She also wrote down her impressions of her travels in them. She later used the notes to prepare lectures, during which she brought the knowledge of the visited places to her listeners."
Bogdan Podgórski, In Search of Beauty. Bronisława Rychter-Janowska 1868-1953, Krakow 2015, pp. 131-141.