It is estimated that Leopold Gottlieb (1879-1934), who came from Drohobych and was educated in Krakow, Munich and Paris, and who after joining the Polish Legions as a volunteer, was called the "painter of the First Brigade", created around 1000 legionary portraits. His wartime legacy includes mainly drawings (also non-portraits), around 30 graphic works (mainly lithographs), single watercolours and oil paintings, as well as photographs. The artist reportedly also used a film camera at the front. | The portfolio of lithographs was a chronological and artistic summation of the legionary output of the Polish-Jewish painter. The artist chose portraits, genre scenes and landscapes from his entire wartime oeuvre to transfer onto lithographic stone. As many as 12 of all the lithographs made in Switzerland have dates next to their signatures, which prove that the preparatory drawings were made at the Volhynian front (from which Gottlieb arrived directly to Zurich) not earlier than a few months, and sometimes barely a few weeks, before the publication of the portfolio. The artist, and probably also the Swiss publisher of the album, wanted the graphics to be as up-to-date as possible, which significantly increased the propaganda impact of the collection. | In June 1916, Leopold Gottlieb stayed in Zurich, where in cooperation with Professor Jerzy Mycielski he prepared an exhibition of the Polish Legions. At that time, he met the owner of a lithography workshop, Johann Edwin Wolfensberger, who persuaded the artist to prepare Legion drawings (brought to Zurich for the mentioned exhibition) in the form of lithographs. Gottlieb created the works on lithographic stone with his own hands. In the album published by Wolfensberger "Die Polnischen Legionen. 24 farbige Lithographien von polnischen Legionär Leopold Gottlieb" (In 1936, that is two years after Gottlieb's death, the second edition of the legionary lithographs by the artist from Drohobycz, reduced by two works, was published by Główna Księgarnia Wojskowa in Warsaw under the title "Polish Legions".