Oil on cardboard, signed, inscribed, and dated in the lower right: "Bratkowski Hadle 1911".
Dimensions with frame: 85x108 cm (70x93 cm).
Roman Bratkowski (1869–1954)—Polish landscape painter; from 1888 to 1890, he studied at the Kraków School of Fine Arts under Feliks Szynalewski, Izydor Jabłoński, and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz. He then studied at the Vienna Academy under Christian Griepenkerl and Alfred Eisenmenger, and from 1894 to 1896 at Anton Ažbé’s private school in Munich. Until 1919, he lived permanently in Lviv, where he taught painting at Stanisław Batowski’s school beginning in 1903 and served as a professor at the Free Academy of Art starting in 1912. He participated in exhibitions of the Lviv and Kraków branches of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts (TPSP) and also exhibited at the Zachęta in Warsaw. During the interwar period, he lived in Italy and served as director of the Jan Styka Museum on Capri. He painted almost exclusively atmospheric landscapes, characterized by a keen sensitivity to nature and light.
