Signed l. d.: GOTLIB.
The presented landscape was probably created while Henryk Gotlib was in France. This stay falls in the years 1923-1938. In contrast to the principles first advocated by Jan Stanislawski - that is, painting in the open air, Henryk Gotlib created in the studio in an atmosphere of silence and concentration. Landscape was a subject in which the artist did not seek to reflect nature or the laws that operate in it, but was a pretext for exploring the attitude of the French colorists, where color was supposed to be a carrier of emotions.
Between 1908 and 1910, Henryk Gotlib studied at Krakow's Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Wojciech Weiss, among others. He was also associated with a group of Formist painters, whose representatives included Tytus Czyzewski and Leon Chwistek. These artists proclaimed the primacy of content and, above all, form in art, in opposition to realism or mimetic imitation of nature in art. Among their colleagues abroad, they gained such allies as Louis Marcoussis and Gustav Gwozdecky. At the threshold of World War II, he went to England, where he settled permanently and was an active participant in artistic life. At the same time, Marek Żuławski, Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, Feliks Topolski also emigrated to the Islands. During the military conflict, Piotr Potworowski also joined the circle of Polish artists in England.
