Lot 50: An unintended Halt

Tadeusz Rybkowski, Kielce 1848 - Lemberg 1926 An unintended Halt, Oil/wood, 21 x 37 cm, lo. le. sign. Tadeusz Rybkowski. - Polish history a. figure painter, son of the portrait painter Jan R. R. began his training at the Cracow academy under W. Luszczkiewicz, thereafter he studied at the Vienna academy under Wurzinger as well as at the Kunstschule Löffler a. in the studio of H. Makart. In 1893 he became professor in Lemberg. R. specialized in subjects from rural Poland but also painted frescoes. - Mus.: Cracow, Warsaw, Poznan. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker.