lithograph, paper, 22.5 x 16 cm (framed), 39.5 x 33 cm (framed, framed), signed on panel p. d.: ABartels
The work was created in 1881 as an aid to Zagreb, which was destroyed by an earthquake a year earlier, by artists from Cracow. The lithograph was made in 1881 at Aureliusz Pruszyński's Artistic Lithography Workshop in Kraków.
Aureliusz Pruszyński (9.09.1847 Kasinka Mała pow. Limanowa - 22.04.1904 Krakow) - a Krakow lithographer, owner of the esteemed Aureliusz Pruszyński Artistic Lithography Workshop in Krakow founded in 1873 at 17 Pijarska Street, from ca 1902 the owner of the workshop was his son Zenon Pruszyński (see SAP vol. 8 pp. 92-93). In the factory of A. Pruszyński since the end of the 19th century, leading artists from Cracow reflected their graphic works in lithography (including posters), including the famous "Teka Melpomena".
Artur Bartels (Barthels) (13.10.1818 Wilno or Slutskdistrict - 23.12.1885 Krakow) Polish satirist, singer, talented amateur draftsman, landowner. Associated with Wilno until 1863, he was known for his three series of satirical drawings ca 1845 published in Wilczynski's "Album of Vilnius" of 1858. In ca 1863 he settled in Warsaw, and from ca 1876 in Krakow, where he made his living from drawings on wood of usually hunting subjects; see SAP vol. 1 pp. 94-95.
