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LOT 165:
KRUSZEWSKI, JOSEF VINCENT. “The Wonder ...
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KRUSZEWSKI, JOSEF VINCENT. “The Wonder Rabbi.”
Gouache. Signed and dated by the artist lower right. Gallery invoice (1960) tipped on back.
Not examined out of frame. 16 x 22 inches.
Cracow, 1900.
Josef Vincent Kruszewski (1853-1920) was a Polish painter, illustrator and cartoonist. In 1867 he enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow where he studied intermittently until 1876. He then traveled to Brussels to study under the noted Belgian orientalist painter, Jean-Francois Portaels. After returning to Cracow, Kruszewski created numerous watercolors depicting humorous scenes of everyday life, Jewish subjects were a frequent theme. His paintings featured deliberately exaggerated characters types and satirical sketches of the inhabitants of Cracow. He was a regular contributor to many of Cracow's journals and also illustrated several books.
