GRABARZ, Antoni (1904-1965) - Warsaw Insurgent 1944 (Musia). Oil on panel 45x32 cm (light frame), signed p. g.: Antoni Grabarz 44 r. A. D.
The artist studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts between 1922 and 1928 in the studio of Tadeusz Pruszkowski, then in Paris, belonged to the artistic group Brotherhood of St. Luke, exhibited and won medals of the Salon of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, after the war he settled in Bydgoszcz. According to an oral account, Antoni Grabarz and his partner with the diminutive surname Musia (surname unknown, she came from Lithuania, where she returned after Antoni's death), witnessed (participated in?) the Warsaw Uprising.
