Dimensions: 51 x 38.5 cm
signed l.d.: 'Fra Żmurko 1898'
on the reverse a sticker of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland and a ruling by Dr. Kazimierz Buczkowski
Exhibited
Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland, Warsaw, 1901
Literature
Kazimierz Daniłowicz-Strzelbicki, Franciszek Żmurko, Warsaw 1902, p. 49 (ill.)
Magdalena Płażewska, The Warsaw Salon of Aleksander Krywult (1880-1906), "Rocznik Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie" 1966, vol. X, p. 416
Franciszek Żmurko 1858-1910, exhibition catalog, Mazovian Museum in Płock, July-September 1978, Płock 1978, p. 30, item 103
Biography
Franciszek Żmurko began his studies in drawing and painting with Franciszek Tepa in Lviv, and continued in 1874- 81 with Jan Matejko at the School of Fine Arts in Krakow, as well as in Vienna, Rome and at the Munich Academy with A. Wagner (1878- 80). After his studies, until 1882, he lived in Cracow, later settling in Warsaw. He traveled a lot - he visited France, Germany, Holland, St. Petersburg. The artist's works were highly regarded by critics and the public; he took part in numerous exhibitions at home (in Warsaw, Krakow, Lviv, Vilnius, Zhytomyr) and abroad, including France, Germany, Holland, England, as well as Chicago and San Francisco. He painted academic compositions of ancient, allegorical-symbolic and sometimes historical and religious themes, as well as portraits.
