Dimensions: 79 x 44 cm
Signed and dated p.g.: 'Józef Mehoffer | 1944.'
Origin
Polswiss Art auction house, November 2012
private collection, Poland
Biography
He was a painter, printmaker, decorator, stage designer and educator. He studied painting in 1887-94 at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow under Władysław Łuszczkiewicz and Jan Matejko, while simultaneously studying law at the Jagiellonian University. He continued his studies at Parisian universities: Académie Julian, Académie Colarossi (under P. - J. Blanc, G. Courtois) and École des Beaux-Arts (under Léon Bonnat). After his studies in 1894-96, he alternated between the country, Paris and Switzerland. For his design of stained-glass windows for the Freiburg collegiate church, he was awarded first prize in an international competition (the stained-glass windows were completed until 1934). In 1896 he settled in Cracow, and from 1900 was a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts. He was a member and co-founder of the Society of Polish Artists Art (1897). He painted decorative portraits, symbolic compositions, landscapes and still lifes.
