Zygmunt Józef Menkes (1896 Lviv - 1986 Riverdale, USA), Landscape from the Carpathian Mountains, ca. 1930

Origin:
private collection, Switzerland
DESA Unicum, May 2020
private collection, Poland

Literature
compare Wladyslawa Jaworska, Zygmunt Menkes. Painter of École de Paris, "Bulletin of Art History" 1996, no. 1-2, p. 25

Biography
Studied at the Industrial School in Lviv, then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He also studied in the studio of Alexander Archipenko in Berlin. In 1923 he went to Paris, where he entered the circle of painters of the Ecole de Paris. He exhibited at the Paris Salons: Autumn, Independent, Tuileries. He was associated with artistic life in Poland. He belonged to the New Generation grouping, and was a member of the Zwornik Association of Artists. He painted landscapes, figural compositions, nudes, portraits, still lifes and scenes of Jewish life. In addition to oil painting, he also created gouaches, watercolors and drawings.