Karol WAWROSZ (1860 - ?), Polish Army after 1800, 1908

photolithography colored in watercolor, ribbed paper; 26 x 20 cm light double passe -
partout; framed, 43 x 35 cm; print comes from "Materyały do ikonografii
of Kings, Armor and the Polish Army," published by Wladyslaw Bartynowski, Krakow, 1908;
described under the composition: K. Wawrosz collated and drawn | Published by Wladyslaw Bartynowski | R.M.
Zadrazil photolithographed in Cracow / (Imitation reserved). / Serya II. Polish army after
r. 1800. tab. VII. b. / Polish legions in Italy / Year 1794 - 1800.
Karol Wawrosz (born Zywiec 1860 - ?) - Polish painter and illustrator of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was born
Born in the family of a forester. Initially he studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow.
From 1879 he worked for Wladyslaw Bartynowski as a draftsman. From April 18, 1888
he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the painting class under the
under the direction of Alexander von Liezen-Meyer (1839-1898). Illustrator of books (including B.
Twardowski, Wojsko polskie Kościuszko, Poznań 1894, Bartynowski Wizerunki królów,
Armament and the Polish Army and Materials for the Iconography of Kings, Armor and the Polish Army). Author of
of drawings for E. Czapski's catalog of Polish numismatics.