Portrait of a Common Man

Ludwik Zmigrodzki

Basic information

ID: Ж-732
Author: Ludwik Zmigrodzki
Name: Portrait of a Common Man
Country: Poland
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 31.5 x 26.5

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: portraiture
Plot: Portrait
Provenance: Collection of Lviv City Gallery

Information about author

Author: Ludwik Zmigrodzki
Artist's lifetime: 1856–1906
Country: Poland
Biography: Ludwik Zmigrodzki (1856–1906, Poland) was a Polish artist. A graduate of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. A member of the German art association "Kunstverein München". He painted portraits, religious scenes, still lifes, and landscapes. He exhibited his works at the Krakow Society of Friends of Fine Arts and the Zacheta National Art Gallery. It is known that Zmigrodzki posed for the artist Wladyslaw Czachorski as the character Hamlet in his famous painting "Actors Before Hamlet" (1875).

Object description

Against an ochre background, the painting depicts a frontal half-length portrait of an older man with a moustache and sideburns. He is dressed in a white shirt with a faintly defined collar. Particular attention is drawn to the subject's grey, seemingly faded eyes, which have a thoughtful and melancholy gaze directed towards the sky.

Inscriptions

On the reverse side is an inscription: "Żmigrodzki".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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