Oil on board, signed p.d. "A. Podbielski", signed on the back "Podbielski".
Dimensions in frame: 44x54 cm (27x16 cm)
Antoni Podbielski (Warsaw 1857 - 1895 Warsaw) painter, crippled from birth. After graduating from high school, he studied at the Drawing Class in Warsaw (in 1878, as a student there, he received an allowance from the TZSP), then enrolled (Oct. 21, 1882) in the Antikenklasse at the Munich academy. In 1886 he stayed in Lodz, where together with painter Jan Zeydel he opened a studio (open to the public) and painted portraits on commission. In August tr. he arranged an exhibition of portraits and watercolors in Lodz, at Fiszer's bookstore. In Warsaw, he exhibited TZSP: 1887 Ulicznik (a.k.a. Lobuz), aqu.; 1888 Głowa mężczyzny i 2 portrety kobietce, all ol.; 1889 studium głowy Żyda, rys.; 1892 unknown by title aqu.; 1894 Kościół Św. Barbary, and probably in Salon Artyst. in 1890-types of highlanders (Tyg. il. mentions Podbielski without a name in its discussion of this exhibition). He painted portraits, landmark types, landscapes and views, and was also involved in religious painting. In his posthumous memoirs in Tyg. il, he mainly devoted his time and undeniable abilities to unnamed church work and belonged to a painting circle whose members aimed to raise the artistic level, of church painting. In the church par. Jakubow near Minsk Mazowiecki there is a copy from Rubens Christ Crucified by his brush. In addition, he made several drawings for woodcuts (according to works of foreign painting), published in Tyg. il. in 1. 1880-81. MNW View of a village church, watercolor, Portrait of Wladyslaw Hirszel, ink, sign.
