Description
Lithograph, paper, 57 x 45.5 cm
Signed in stone l.d.: JGumowski / Jasna Góra 1925
Asking price 300
Estimate 400 - 500
Jan Kanty GUMOWSKI
1883 Kroscienko - 1946 Cracow
Painter, illustrator, graphic artist. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow with J. Mehoffer, K. Laszczka, as a scholarship holder of the Czartoryski family, supplemented his studies in Italy 1911-12, in Munich 1913-14 and in Paris. He painted portraits, landscapes and especially architectural monuments. In 1915-1928 he published several lithographic volumes with views of Polish architectural monuments. During World War I he fought in the First Brigade of the Legions then settled in Cracow. In 1942 he was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in Auschwitz.
