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Oil on brown masonite. 24" X 16".
"Wiktor Korecki was one of the most prolific Polish landscape painters of the 20th century. His painting is especially valued for its unique atmosphere, the play of colors and light. The subject matter of his paintings reflects the tastes of the Polish middle class in the interwar period. He painted what attracted interest - themes known and liked from the classics of Polish painting at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries: fishermen with the network known from Wyczókowski's [Leon Wyczókowski, 1852-1936] paintings, wolves known from the paintings of Wierusz-Kowalski [Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski, 1849-1915] winding streams in winter, appreciated earlier in the works of Falat [Julian Falat, 1853-1929], birch and pines on the moors - favorite topics of Rapacki [Jozef Rapacki, 1871 - 1929] . In the tiniest detail, he recreated childhood images spent in Podolia. A common theme of Korean paintings was the theme of the painted sea at different times of the day. Korecki is an authentic admirer of meadows, forests, streams, sun, an observer of innumerable metamorphoses that undergo the influence of various light qualities. The various climates created by light can be given away with the championship. His landscapes give the viewer almost the physical feel of the place, its temperature, time of day.
'Korecki was an extremely prolific painter. In the 1960's and 1970's, he usually painted a larger painting every two days, which gave 15 paintings a month. The speed of painting was then owed to routine, but one can not fail to mention the phenomenal memory, thanks to which the paintings did not have to be created outdoors. Wiktor Korecki's works can be found in private collections: in America, Russia, Ukraine, Sweden, Austria and Mexico, and in museum collections: Museum of Hunting and Horsemanship in Warsaw and Museum of Southern Moravia in Znojmo. He even painted on orders from Africa. The image of Korecki was decorated by the office of the prison governor in the second part of the Vabank movie .
'Wiktor Korecki was born on June 30 in 1897 in Kamieniec Podolski (in many artist's biographies an incorrect date of birth is given: 1890). He attended the Middle School in Kiev and then to the local drawing school. In 1921, he settled in Warsaw and soon gained the reputation of a good landscape painter. In the interwar period, he participated in three collective exhibitions of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts. After the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, along with thousands of Warsaw residents, he was deported to Germany, where he was sent to a labor camp in Leipzig. After escaping from the camp, he spent almost two years in Moravia in the Czech Republic. From where he returned to Poland and lived in Milanówek near Warsaw. In 1966 he moved to Komorów. He died in 1980. "
--Piotr Chwedorowicz, Wiktor Korecki [exhibition catalog], Warsaw 2014.
