Mieczyslaw KORWIN-PIOTROWSKI, Partridges

oil, cardboard, 48.5 x 68.5 cm, signed: l.d.: M. K. Piotrowski, on the back a sticker of the Salon of Fine Arts in Lviv.

Born on the 29th of January in Kamieniec Podolski. Educated at the School of Fine Arts (SSP) in Cracow under Florian Cynk and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz. Shortly after beginning his studies, he moved to Munich, where he had a studio on Georgenstrasse 36 and attended a private drawing and painting school run by Stanislaw Grocholski in 1898/9. In May 1899 he moved again to Lviv. From then on he took part in national exhibitions in Krakow (Society of Friends of Fine Arts, 1901, 1905), Lviv (1899, 1903-05, 1907, 1909-13, 1922), Ternopil (1902) and Kiev, where in 1917 he had a solo exhibition of about 120 works at the Salon d'Art in the Passage on Kryshchatka. He continued to exhibit there in 1918. He painted in oil, gouache, drew with pastels and pencil. The subject of his interest was mainly landscape, often atmospheric, with motifs of trees, plants, flowers, buildings, seasons of the day and year.