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Part of the Market Square in Kazimierz Dolny

Hufnagel, Gizela (1903-1997)

The painting, dated circa 1930 (oil, canvas, 55 x 58 cm), depicts a view of the corner of Market Square and Lubelska Street in Kazimierz Dolny. In the foreground is a well covered with a dark brown tented roof and surrounded by wooden railings. It is placed against the gable elevation of a house with dark blue walls and a dark brown roof. Two small windows and two doors with open red shutters are visible in the elevation. To the right, a section of a sketchily treated building can be seen. Above is a grey and grey-brown, in places strongly bleached, luminous sky. The painting is maintained in rather dark tones. The entire work is painted with loose brushstrokes. In the lower right-hand corner, there is a signature: "G. Hufnaglówna".

Gizela Hufnaglówna (Klimaszewska-Arctowa) (1903-1997) – a painter and an illustrator. She studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts in the studio of Professor Tadeusz Pruszkowski, as well as under Stanisław Noakowski and Wojciech Jastrzębowski. In 1929, together with other artists of Jewish origin, Mary Litauer and Elżbieta Hirszberżanka, she founded the "Kolor" art group. Michał Weinzieher wrote that they set themselves the goal of "developing the colour properties of painting", thus sensing "the need of the time, expressed in contemporary painting in the longing for colourful revival of the image" (see M. Weinzieher, Kolor. Wystawa grupy malarskiej w Zw. Zaw. Polskich Art. Plastyków, "Nasz Przegląd", 1929, no. 20, p. 9). Hufnaglówna's paintings drew inspiration from the paintings of artists associated with the École de Paris. The most important exhibitions of the "Kolor" group, in which the artist participated, took place in 1929 at the ZPAP in Warsaw, in 1930 at the Garliński Salon in Warsaw, in 1931 in Łódź at a branch of the Institute of Art Propaganda, and in 1933 in Kraków and Warsaw.

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Information about the object
Author / creator
Hufnagel, Gizela (1903-1997)
Object type
painting
Place of creation
Kazimierz Dolny (Lubelskie Province)
Technique
painter’s
Material
canvas
oil-based paint
Keywords
Copyrights status
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Owner
Celejowska Townhouse. Branch of Nadwiślańskie Museum in Kazimierz Dolny
Identification number
MKD/543/S