Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska, Stefania [Editor]; Malkiewicz, Barbara [Editor]; Muzeum Narodowe <Krakau> [Editor]; Gołubiew, Zofia [Editor]; Blak, Halina [Editor]; Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie [Editor]: Modern Polish painting: the catalogue of collections (Band 2): Polish painting from around 1890 to 1945 (Cracow, 1998)

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BATOWSKI | BIERKOWSKA


37.
Battle-Scene, [ca. 1928]
Oil on cardboard, 29 x 43.5
Signed bottom left S K.Batowski
Inv. no MNK II-b-3246 (deposit no 7225)
Gift of Janina Baranowa, 1985

38.
Portrait of Adolf Beck, 1934
Oil on canvas, 102 x 72
Signed and dated bottom right S.Batowski |
1934
Inv. no MNK II-b-2378 (316 581)
Gift of Boleslaw Zakrzewski, 1974
Adolf Beck (1863-1942) was a professor of
medicine and rector of the Jan Kazimierz Univer-
sity in Lvov.
See also items 1616-1618.


Leona (Leonia) BIERKOWSKA BM
Bom in Cracow in 1855 — Died in Cracow in 1925
She studied painting initially under Hipolit Lipinski at the Adrian Baraniecki Higher Courses for
Women in Cracow. In the years 1875-1879 she gave there lessons of drawing and
ornamentation. In the 1880s she was a student of Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre at the
Academie Julian in Paris. She returned to Cracow in 1886. She exhibited her works at the Cracow
Society of Friends of the Fine Arts from 1877 to 1896, collaborating as well with the Artistic Salon
of Aleksander Krywult in Warsaw. In 1903 she became the vice-chairman of the Circle of Polish
Ladies Artists in Cracow.
She occupied herself mainly with genre painting and executed also portrait studies. Around 1900
she took up sculpture — she sculpted small polychromed wooden figures which represented folk
types in regional costumes shown in a realistic way.


39.
Blizzard, 1897
(Help!)
Oil on canvas, 63 x 95
Signed and dated bottom right Leona Bier-
kowska 11897
Inv. no MNK II-b-12 (12 127)
Gift of Przemystaw Kotarski, 1902