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Introduction to Leopold Gottlieb's portfolio of engravings, including a title page with publishing information and a list of portfolio contents, as well as Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski's text, "Leopold Gottlieb – Painter of the First Brigade of the Polish Legions", and Jan Kleczyński's text, "Synteza twórczości Leopolda Gottlieba". |After the outbreak of the First World War, Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski (1885-1944), writer and publicist, pre-war supporter of the independence movement (PPS), joined the First Brigade of the Polish Legions as a volunteer and became its chronicler. He was quickly promoted to the position of Józef Piłsudski's adjutant. He closely followed the legionary work of Gottlieb, with whom he was friends. This makes his descriptions of the circumstances in which the first drawing portrait of Piłsudski was made, the artist's struggles with his fellow legionaries trying to get their own images, or Leon Berbecki's efforts to create even substitute conditions for Gottlieb's artistic work at the front line, all the more credible. Years later, Kaden also described the circumstances of Gottlieb's death in Paris in 1934, in the text for the catalogue of the artist's posthumous exhibition at the Warsaw Institute of Art Propaganda (1935). | The writer and art critic Jan Kleczyński (1875-1939) studied in Krakow at the end of the 19th century at the same time as Gottlieb. In the first decades of the 20th century, both of them were connected by the same artistic and social circles (to which belonged, among others, Stefan Żeromski, Xawery Dunikowski). | AT