Stanislaw Grabowski (1901 Libawa -1957 Chartres), Landscape ca. 1930 r.
Oil on canvas 30 x 43 cm,
Signed p.d.: S. GrabowskiThe works will be available for viewing on 10.12.2022 (Saturday) from 11.00 - 17.00 at the Antiquarian Art Gallery at 25 Emilia Plater Street, 00-688 Warsaw.
Biography
Stanislaw Grabowski (1901 Libawa -1957 Chartres) - Polish painter active in France. Son of a customs official and long-time deputy to the Libawa City Council Witold Grabowski and Karolina Missan from Kalun. Stanislaw Grabowski attended the Commercial School in Libava, where his first drawing teacher was Kajetan Szklerys, under his tutelage at the time he copied Pankiewicz's paintings and painted vedutas. In 1914 the family moved to Rybinsk on the Volga River, where he continued his studies in the studio of Mikhail Shcheglov. In 1919 he left for Warsaw where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under Karol Tiche, Władysław Skoczylas and Wojciech Jastrzębowski. In 1926 they left for Paris, where he continued his studies at the Academie Moderne. He lived there intermittently until the 1950s and was active in the artistic life of the capital. His works participated in exhibitions at the Salons and in private galleries of France. He also exhibited in London and New York. The most numerous collection of Stanislaw Grabowski's works is in the holdings of the National Museum in Warsaw and the Art Museum in Lodz.
