Artist: Leon Jan Wyczolkoski (Polish, 1852 – 1936)
Title: Old Warehouses at Gdansk (In the port at the Motława River)
Medium: Antique black and white print after the original.
Signature: Signed in the plate, lower right.
Dimensions: Image Size 4 1/8 x 6 3/4 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 13 x 16 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Leon Jan Wyczółkowski was a Polish painter and educator who was one of the leading painters of the Young Poland movement, as well as the principal representative of Polish Realism in art of the Interbellum. From 1895 to 1911 he served as professor of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Kraków, and from 1934, ASP in Warsaw. He was a founding member of the Society of Polish Artists “Sztuka” (Art, 1897).