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Lot 1667 Dα

Franciszek Streitt - Travelling Musicians Performing in a Galician Village

Auction 1057 - overview Cologne
14.11.2015, 11:00 - Old Master and 19th Century Paintings and Drawings
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
Result: 16.120 € (incl. premium)

Franciszek Streitt

Travelling Musicians Performing in a Galician Village

Oil on panel. 29 x 54 cm.
Signed lower left: F. Streitt.

Franciszek (Franz) Streitt was born in Brody in the Ukraine and studied at Kraków art college from 1858 to 1868. In 1871 he transferred to the Academy in Vienna and was there taught by Eduard von Engerth. He moved to Munich in the same year and there joined a group of Polish artists together with Józef Brandt and Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski, as well as becoming a member of the Münchner Kunstverein. He mainly painted genre scenes depicting the lives of Galician peasants and Romany.

Provenance

Private ownership, Germany.