Ludwik Leszko, VIEW ON THE PORT (MALTA)

Oil, cardboard, 68 x 92 cm,
signed p.g.: LLeszko Malta 1937.

Ludwik LESZKO (1890-1957)
Studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (1908-1918, 1920/21), where he was a student of J. Mehoffer, and in Vienna. In the 1920s and 1930s he made many artistic trips to Scandinavian countries, France, Italy, Greece and Turkey. He exhibited at home and abroad, including in: the Cracow TPSP, where he had two solo exhibitions (1929, 1931), Lviv (1926, 1927), Poznań and the TZSP in Warsaw (1930, 1931, 1934), as well as Paris (1927), Bratislava (1928), London (1930) and Brussels. After 1945, he belonged to the "Circle" grouping. He practiced oil and watercolor painting. The main theme of his work was landscape, especially mountain and seaside.