Stefan PAJĄCZKOWSKI

CAVALRY TRUMPETER
Watercolor, paper; 29 x 24 cm (illus. p-p)
Signed p.d.: S. Pajączkowski
Stefan PAJĄCZKOWSKI
1900 Lviv - 1978 Edinburgh
Painter, printmaker and outstanding expert on the uniforms and armaments of the Polish soldier through the ages. Participant in the Polish-Bolshevik war. He studied painting under Zygmunt Rozwadowski. In 1926 he settled in Wańkowice, where he ran a farm. Since 1944 in the Polish People's Army, he passed the combat trail of the Second Army reaching the rank of rittmeister. After the war, he settled in Poznan, working at the National Union of Cooperatives of Folk and Artistic Industries. He initiated the reactivation of the Wielkopolska Military Museum as a branch of the National Museum, where he became curator. He created battle compositions and uniform watercolors. His works were used to organize, among others, a large exhibition entitled. "1000 Years of Polish Arms," which visited numerous cities in Poland. Pajczkowski's drawings were included in the publication "Polish Cavalry," published by KAW in 1980. He also made a number of ex-librises.
Asking price 1000
Estimate 1300 - 1500
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