Dimensions: 57 x 72 cm
Signed p.d.: 'W. Wodzinowski'
on the reverse two fragmentarily preserved paper stickers
Biography
Wincenty Wodzinowski graduated from the Warsaw Drawing School, the Cracow School of Fine Arts and the Munich Academy. In 1892 he returned to the country and settled near Krakow, in Swoszowice. His work fully expressed his fascination with the countryside and the life associated with it. Wodzinowski's painterly output was dominated by folk genre scenes, painted freely with characteristic
dynamism and liveliness, imbued with the joy of life. He also created landscapes and portraits. Until around 1900, he painted mainly large-scale, elaborate multi-figural compositions, and his main customer at the time was Count Ignacy Korwin-Milewski. As the artist's leading funder, he purchased his works, placing them in his private museum on St. Catherine Island in the Adriatic Sea. Along with Ludwik Stasiak, Włodzimierz Tetmajer, Kacper Żelechowski and Stanisław Radziejowski, Wodzinowski is counted among the so-called "five peasant artists" of an informal grouping of artists fascinated by the life and colorfulness of the Polish countryside.
