Maks HANEMAN (HANNEMANN), From Antalowka

oil, cardboard, 33 x 47 cm, signed p.d.: to dear Jas Smotrycki in memory of 26.7.1937, stamp on back Maks Haneman Zakopane. Below handwritten inscription: From Antalowka.

Painter, landscape painter of the Tatra Mountains, student of the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts in the studios of L. Wyczółkowski and T. Axentowicz, from 1916 studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Before 1925 he traveled to Palestine, from this period come works on Middle Eastern themes. After his studies, he settled in Zakopane and became associated with the Zakopane artistic community, and was an active member of the Podhale Art Society. Haneman ran an Art Bazaar in Krupówki, where, in addition to his works, he sold painting materials and Zakopane souvenirs.