Stanislaw DZIEMAŃSKI, St. Mark's Square in Venice

oil, cardboard, 13 x 17.5 cm, signed p.d.: St.Dziemański / Venezia [1]925 (signature scratched in wet paint); on the reverse on paper dedication: to dear Tadzio M. - a warm and devoted Friend I offer in token of friendship / Semp. Fid. / Venetian Market / Cracow dn. 87.VI.17.

Painter, student of T. Błotnicki and S. Dębicki at the School of Drawing Painting and Modeling, supplemented his studies with W. Wodzinowski and T. Axentowicz. After 1924, he traveled several times to France and Italy. He participated in exhibitions of the Cracow TPSP, exhibited in Warsaw, Lublin, Poznan and Zakopane. Since 1954 he lived in Warsaw. Most often he took up landscape themes, painting the Tatra Mountains and Podhale, marine motifs, views of architecture.