Antoni de BRADÉ, PORTRET OF A LADY, 1930

Oil, cardboard; 76 x 56.5 cm
Signed l.d.: A. Bradé 1930

Art deco style painting

Antoni de BRADÉ
1887 Warsaw- 1973 Świdnica
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with M. Kotarbinski and P. Wielonski (1910-1914) and at the St. Petersburg Academy (1915). Before the war he made an artistic journey through China, Japan, India and Africa. In Vladivostok he had his exhibition. Paintings from that time were lost in Kiev during the October Revolution, of which he was a participant.In 1921 he returned to Poland and lived in Katowice. After the war he settled in Lower Silesia - in Jawor and then Świdnica, doing creative and pedagogical work. Among other things, he painted portraits, nudes, still lifes, flowers, landscapes (e.g. of Gdansk and Podkarpacie), studies of people (including highlanders and fishermen), but above all paintings of marine subjects. He belonged to the "Zacheta" group, with which he exhibited, also abroad. In addition, he exhibited his paintings at, among others, the Warsaw TZSP (1929), the Marine Club in Warsaw (1935), the Cracow TPSP (1938) and the National Marine Exhibition in Warsaw (1964). He had numerous solo exhibitions, including in Vladivostok (1915), at the City Museum in Walbrzych (1962), at ZPAP in Wroclaw (1966). "The first national exhibition was held by Antoni Brade in 1924, and from that date he becomes one of the more famous and active Polish visual artists. In the interwar period, his name is known to regulars at "Zachęta", the Municipal Art Gallery in Lodz, the Cracow Palace of Art, at the Poznań Society of Fine Arts [...]. Over the course of half a century of creative work, Antoni Brade practiced various subjects and used various painting techniques, remaining faithful to the main idea of his painting - the realistic convention in the broadest possible sense" (Tadeusz Starostecki, 1966).