Mieczysław Filipkiewicz, WINTER LANDSCAPE WITH A RIVER

31 x 49.3 cm - oil on cardboard

signed lower left: MIECZYSŁAW FILIPKIEWICZ

On the reverse, lower left, opposite the composition, the artist’s name in pencil.

Mieczysław Filipkiewicz, the younger brother of the painter Stefan; from 1910 to 1915, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Stanisław Dębicki, Teodor Axentowicz, and Józef Pankiewicz. He then studied in Vienna, and from 1921 to 1923, he returned to Kraków to study under Wojciech Weiss. He began exhibiting in 1925, primarily at the Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts, where he received several awards.
He painted landscapes of the Tatra Mountains and the seashore, as well as still lifes and flowers, and, less frequently, figurative compositions. He also worked in commercial graphic design and applied arts.