01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #125

Auton Nowak, 1865 - 1932

Gdańsk, A  Polish Shipyard

Oil On Canvas

47"H x 37"W

Private collection

Gdańsk  is a Polish city on the Baltic coast. It is the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland's principal seaport and the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area. The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay off the Baltic Sea. 

With its origins as a Polish stronghold erected in the 980s, the city's history is complex, with periods of Polish rule, periods of Prussian or German rule, and periods of autonomy or self-rule as a "free city". In the early-modern age Gdańsk was a royal city of Poland. It was considered the wealthiest and the largest city of Poland, prior to the 18th century rapid growth of Warsaw. Between the world wars, the Free City of Danzig was in a customs union with Poland and was located between German East Prussia and the so-called Polish Corridor. More on Gdańsk

Anton Nowak (10 May 1865 – 28 May 1932) was an Austrian artist and graphic designer. Hewas born in Marburg an der Drau and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. In 1894, he joined the Vienna Künstlerhaus.

He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession, and had a work shown at the group's first exhibition] Nowak contributed woodcuts to the group's magazine Ver Sacrum, taking inspiration from the northern Adriatic region. He was on the group's working committee in 1898, 1902, and served as the group's president in 1908-09.

He also painted watercolours of the Austrian countryside and the city of Brno, where he ran a painting school. 

Nowak's paintings were brightly coloured and naturalistic; under the Secession's influence, he experimented with pointillism in the style of Théo van Rysselberghe. His work as a designer was firmly within the Secession's tradition. He was influenced by Theodor von Hörmann. More on Anton Nowak

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