Leon GETZ (1896-1971), Tram stop

Oil, dicta, 55 x 41.5 cm. signed p.d.: L. Getz, l.d.: 1959, on the back the author's sticker: Leon Getz "Tram Stop" oil Kossaka Square Krakow Leon Getz Krakow, Retoryka 24 m4

Leon GETZ (1896-1971). Landscape painter, graphic artist, educator. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studio of St. Dębicki and J. Wojnarski in 1924. Founder of the Lemko Museum in 1930. Member of the Union of Polish Artists since 1945, assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts since 1950. He mostly painted landscapes and architectural views in various techniques, oil, copperplate, woodcut and lithographic. The works show tendencies toward stylization, decorative piling up of forms and simplification of shapes.