Town Buildings I

Olga Boznańska (1865-1940) painted landscape rather unwillingly. She commented on the issue thus: “landscape is terribly difficult. You can’t sit a landscape down on the sofa and tell it to come to the studio several dozen times.” Several times at the beginning of her artistic career, Boznańska painted landscapes. These included views from her studio window, compositions which were created in the “safe space” of her beloved interiors. In 1885, she painted a synthetic and fully compositionally logical view of a courtyard as seen from the window of her family home at Wolska Street 12 in Kraków. This is one of the earliest currently known works by the artist, made before her departure for studies in Munich.