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Portrait of a girl
Maurycy Trębacz (1861-1941)1892
The Polish Museum in Rapperswil
Rapperswil, Switzerland
Obraz przedstawia portret młodej dziewczynki. Postać ukazana jest w popiersiu z twarzyczką i wzrokiem zwróconym na widza. Dziewczynka ma błękitne oczy oraz burzę rudych, kręconych włosów. Ubrana jest w niebieską sukienkę. Tło wokół postaci jest jasnozielone. Twarz dziewczynki znajdująca siew centrum kompozycji, namalowana jest realistycznie i bardzo szczegółowo, natomiast pozostałe elementy ujęto bardziej ekspresyjnie i szkicowo.
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- Title: Portrait of a girl
- Creator: Maurycy Trębacz (1861-1941)
- Date created: 1892
- Physical Dimensions: 45 x 37 cm
- Provenance: In the collection of the Polish Museum in Rapperswil since 1978 (a gift, bequeathed in the last will of Iza Landsberger-Poznańska).
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- About the author: Maurycy Trębacz, (1861 Warsaw – 1941 Lodz), A painter and draughtsman of Jewish origin, he represented the first generation of artists who broke the Judaic ban on representing the human figure in art. He began his artistic education in 1877. First he studied under guidance of Wojciech Gerson and Antoni Kamieński at the Warsaw School of Drawing, then with Władysław Łuszczkiewicz and Jan Matejko in the School of Fine Arts in Cracow. Since 1882 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under the direction of Alexander Wagner and Otto Seitz, which he graduated with a silver medal, whereas in 1889–1890 he practised at the Académie Colarossi in Paris. In 1894 he moved to Warsaw, and then in 1909, he started to live permanently in Lodz, actively participating in the development of the local artistic life and running his own school of painting until 1939. He died in the Lodz ghetto. He painted romantic genre scenes, also on Jewish themes, landscapes and portraits, including the representatives of the Lodz industrial bourgeoisie. He used a realistic manner of painting filtered through the experience of French Impressionism and the Young Poland Symbolism. An excellent draughtsman, skilfully operating with a soft, flowing line. In his paintings he experimented with texture and expressive stain of colour, contributing into the experience of the interwar Colourism – the Polish variety of French Post-Impressionism.
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