Władysław LAM (1893–1984), "VENETIAN STREET IN POZNAN"

oil on canvas, 59 x 49.5 cm, signed lower right: LAM (in an oval). Inscription on the reverse: "Wenecjańska St./ in Poznań/ W. LAM."

Władysław LAM ( 1893–1984)
Painter, printmaker, and educator; from 1912 to 1918, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in the studio of Teodor Axentowicz and Józef Mehoffer. In 1925, he was in Paris, from where he traveled to the south of France, where he painted many landscape studies and architectural views. During the interwar period, he taught drawing at the Faculty of Architecture of the Lviv Polytechnic, and after World War II, at the Gdańsk University of Technology and the School of Fine Arts in Sopot. He was a member of several artistic groups, including the “Jednoróg” Guild of Visual Artists and the “New Generation” group. In addition, he participated in numerous exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including the international exhibition “Art and Technology” in Paris (1937) and the World’s Fair in New York (1939); he also exhibited in Brussels (1926, 1929), Stockholm (1927), Amsterdam (1929), Philadelphia (1933), Hamburg (1935), Munich and Tokyo (1939), Berlin (1947), and Vienna (1949). He was the author of books on painting. He painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and figurative compositions. His early works reveal a fascination with the art of Wyspiański; later, the artist became interested in Cubism and, over time, Post-Impressionism. His work from the 1950s is associated with the movement of allusive abstraction. In addition to painting, the artist also worked in printmaking.