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Portrait of a Man with Sideburns

Marek Munz

Basic information

ID: Ж-3733
Author: Marek Munz
Name: Portrait of a Man with Sideburns
Date of creation: 1925
Country: Poland
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 82 x 64.5

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: portraiture
Plot: Portrait
Provenance: Jewish Museum of the Jewish Community of Lviv Museum of Ethnography and Art Crafts in Lviv

Information about author

Author: Marek Munz
Artist's lifetime: 1872–1936
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland
Biography: Marek Munz (1872–1936) was a photographer and painter. He studied photography under Josef Eder and began his professional career in 1902. Since 1904, Munz has owned several photo studios in Lviv. In 1910, he participated in the Congress of the Union of Austrian Photographers in Vienna, supporting officially recognising photography as a profession. Marek Munz co-founded the "Photographers' Guild in Lviv" (1913). He collaborated with Polish periodicals such as "Nasz Kraj", "Nowości Ilustrowane", and "Tygodnik Ilustrowany". At the request of the Jewish community of Lviv, in the 1920s, the artist created a series of oil portraits of notable Jewish public and religious figures, including Rabbi I.-L. Schmelkes, M. Alergand, and E. Byk. He was arrested as a suspect in the attempted assassination of the President of Poland, S. Wojciechowski, on September 5, 1924, in Lviv. He was released by a court decision in June 1925. Between 1930 and 1932, he produced many photographs of Lviv, which hold documentary and historical value.

Object description

Against a neutral light background is a bust-length portrait of a middle-aged man with sideburns and a thick moustache in a slight profile to the right. The man is dressed in a classic suit: a dark grey jacket, a vest, a white shirt, and a black bow tie. Near the buttons of the vest, a gold watch chain is visible. The man's short dark hair, streaked with grey, is neatly slicked back. The distant gaze of his brown eyes is directed to the right.

Inscriptions

On the bottom right, there is the artist's signature and date: "Münz 925".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

Portrait of a Man with Sideburns

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