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Horses in the Pasture

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz

Basic information

ID: Ж-1883
Author: Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz
Name: Horses in the Pasture
Date of creation: 1874
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 25.5 x 40.5

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: genre art animal painting
Provenance: Collection of Lviv City Gallery

Information about author

Author: Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz
Artist's lifetime: 1852–1916
Country: Poland, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Biography: Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz (1852–1916) was a Polish painter known for his portraits, genre scenes, and battle scenes. He was the cousin of the painter Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz. Tadeusz studied painting at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Wladyslaw Luszczkiewicz. He continued his artistic education at the Munich and Vienna Art Academies. While in Munich, his work was influenced by painters Juliusz Kossak and Jozef Brandt. He participated in World War I as part of the Austro-Hungarian army. He was killed in action near Krakow on January 9, 1916.

Object description

A group of grazing horses is depicted in the foreground against the backdrop of a vast rural landscape. To the right, three young shepherd boys sit near a campfire. In the background, a large estate can be seen in the distance. The clear and serene pre-dawn sky adds to the atmosphere of calm and tranquillity.

Inscriptions

At the bottom left, the author's signature and date: "T. Ajdukiewicz Monachium 1874".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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