Oil on cardboard, signed, inscribed and dated p.d.: "Bratkowski Hadle 1911".
Dimensions in frame: 85x108 cm (70x93 cm).
Roman Bratkowski (1869 - 1954) - Polish landscape painter; between 1888 and 1890 he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow, under Feliks Szynalewski, Izydor Jabłoński and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz. He then studied at the Vienna Academy under Christian Griepenkerl and Alfred Eisenmenger, and from 1894-1896 at Anton Ažbé's private school in Munich. He lived permanently in Lviv until 1919, where he taught painting at the Stanislav Batovsky school from 1903, and was also a professor at the Free Academy of Art from 1912. He participated in exhibitions of the Lviv and Krakow TPSP, and also exhibited at the Warsaw Zachęta Gallery. In the interwar years he lived in Italy, and was director of the Jan Styka Museum in Capri. He painted almost exclusively atmospheric landscapes, characterized by great sensitivity to nature and light.
