Franciszek Roman Rutkowski, Rural Landscape

oil, cardboard, dimensions 45 x 54 cm, signed p. d. "Fr. Rom. Rutkowski"

Franciszek Roman Rutkowski (1892-1940) painter. He received his artistic education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow from 1913 to 1922, and continued his studies, interrupted by World War I, already in the interwar period. His main teachers at the time were Jacek Malczewski and Teodor Axentowicz. In the early period of his work, he betrayed an unusual focus on the issue of color in painting. It was color that was the most important factor, building the content of his paintings. He participated in exhibitions of TPSP in Cracow. It is known from information posted on the website of the Polish Army Field Cathedral that he died in Katyn in 1940.