Tadeusz CIEŚLEWSKI Father (1870 - 1956)

Old Town, 1952

Watercolor, ink, pencil, paper, 28 x 40 cm in light passe - partout, framed in a silver frame 44 x 54 cm. The work comes from the author's family.

Tadeusz Cieślewski studied at the Drawing School in Warsaw under Wojciech Gerson. In 1895-1896 he studied in Paris at the Académie Vitti and with Edmond-François Aman-Jean and Raphaël Collin. In 1900 he traveled to Italy and studied at the Academy of Rome. In 1904, he co-founded the Society of Arts and Crafts. From 1906 he was a member of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, a member and president of the Pro Arte art and painting society. He also served as president of the Association of Polish Artists. He participated in exhibitions of Polish art in 1924 in Moscow, in 1936 at the 20th Venice Biennale, and in 1939 in New York. He spent the first post-war years in Piotrkow Trybunalski, and in 1948

he returned to Warsaw. He painted the cityscapes of Warsaw, less frequently landscapes, portraits and still lifes. He painted most often with watercolor, sometimes also with pastels and oil paints.

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