Marian Kratochwil

• Reference:GB 2610 GMA A76
• Dates of Creation:1941 - 1945
• Physical Description:
  3 items (1.2 linear metres in 2 oversize boxes)

• Scope and Content

  Three leather bound sketchbooks containing pencil, black chalk or ink on paper drawings and prints by Marian Kratochwil (3 items):

  /1. titled: szkocja 1941 - 1943 [Scotland 1941 - 1943]

  /2. titled: szkocja 1942 [Scotland 1942]

  /3. titled: szkocja 1945 [Scotland 1945]

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Marian Kratochwil was born in Kosow, Poland in 1906. A painter and writer, he trained in the studio of Stainislaw Batowski and studied at University Lwow. After the Second World War he painted in Scotland, London and Spain. He married the artist Kathleen Browne in 1961 and assisted in the running of her school. He later wrote a monograph on Browne's work. His work is held by the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, the SNGMA and several European collections. He shared a retrospective with his wife at the Polish Cultural Institute in 1994, showing the drawings he had executed of places on Poland's pre-war eastern borders. He died in 1997.

• Access Information

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• Conditions Governing Use

  All material is subject to copyright restrictions. Requests to reproduce original material should be made to the National Galleries of Scotland’s Image Licensing team (https://www.nationalgalleries.org/copyright-image-licensing)

• Custodial History

  Presented by the artist 1979

• Related Material

  The SNGMA and SNPG Collections hold works by Kratochwil