oil on canvas
Dimensions: 48 x 64 cm
signed lower left: 'Józef Mehoffer'
On the reverse, on the stretcher, there is a paper exhibition label from the Society of Friends of the Fine Arts in Kraków from 1910 with a handwritten description of the work: 'Mehoffer Józef | Manor [illegible] summer | oil [illegible]'
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Provenance
Collection of Gustaw Bychowski, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and his heirs, United States
purchased at an estate sale following the death of Maryla Bychowska, the doctor’s wife, in 1986
Private collection, United States
Exhibited
Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Kraków, March 20–April 30, 1910 (probably)
Bibliography
Catalog of the 14th Exhibition of the Society of Polish Artists “Sztuka,” Kraków 1910, cat. no. 34 (probably the same work)
Biography
He was a painter, printmaker, decorator, set designer, and teacher. He studied painting from 1887 to 1894 at the Kraków School of Fine Arts under W. Łuszczkiewicz and J. Matejko, while simultaneously studying law at Jagiellonian University. He continued his studies at Parisian institutions: the Académie Julian, the Académie Colarossi (under P.-J. Blanc and G. Courtois), and the École des Beaux-Arts (under L. Bonnat). After completing his studies, from 1894 to 1896, he alternated between staying in Poland, Paris, and Switzerland. He received first prize in an international competition for his stained-glass design for the collegiate church in Freiburg (the installation of the stained glass lasted until 1934). In 1896, he settled in Kraków, and from 1900 onward, he was a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts. He was a member and co-founder of the Polish Artists’ Society “Sztuka” (1897). He painted decorative portraits, symbolic compositions, landscapes, and still lifes.
