Lublin - Podwale

Aleksander Gierymski – an excellent luminary, author of numerous landscapes, including nocturnes, was born in 1850 in Warsaw. Between 1868 and 1869 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. The artist spent a large part of his life traveling around Europe. After 1885, he lived mainly in Italy: in Padua, Venice, Florence and Rome. He became known as an artist who was open to a new medium at that time - photography, which met with unfavourable criticism. The photographs taken by Gierymski and the way he used them are not known. On the basis of comparative analysis, researchers find similarities between the motifs visible in Konrad Brandel's photographs and the paintings of Aleksander Gierymski.
As if in a photographic frame, the artist rendered the realistic appearance of the places depicted. The double-sided gouache on the obverse depicts a traffic route of Podwale Street, which does not exist today, adjacent to the façade of St. Adalbert's Church in Lublin. The Trinity Tower can be seen in the distance. The reverse contains a view of the palace in Puławy.