Jan Kuśmidrowicz (1886 - After 1938), "Winter View of Howerla".

oil, plywood, 49.5 x 65.5 cm,
signature p.d.: Howerla Jan Kuśmidrowicz.
On the back the author's dedication: Howerla / oil. w. 70 x 55 / J. To the Honorable Mrs. Marta Miechońska on July 28 /1938r / as JK's name day.
The painting comes from the Lviv collection of the Miechoński family, after WWII residing in Zabrze.

Painter, soldier of the Polish Legions. Due to poor health, he left the service while still in World War I, after which he went to Warsaw. He participated in exhibitions of the Lviv TPSP (1923-1938), and in 1930 exhibited at the TZSP in Warsaw. He painted landscapes, city views of Lviv, landscape motifs from the Podkarpacie region and the Baltic coast, portraits, flowers. In the collection of the Jagiellonian University Museum is his "Winter Landscape from Howerla," and in the collection of the Bielsko-Biała Regional Museum is "Portrait of Bronislaw Gorski."