MERWART Paul
MISS DEVERA
Oil on panel: 32 x 21 cm / 12.6 x 8.3 in
Signed and dated '1882' lower right and on the back
Painter of genre scenes and seascapes; illustrator.
Paul Merwart studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and later on in Graz. He worked in Munich in 1876, in Düsseldorf in 1877 and finally in Paris with Henri Lehmann. After settling down in Paris, he exhibited at the Salons of 1879 and 1896.
In 1902, the French government sent him to study art on the island of Martinique, where he died when the town of St-Pierre was struck by a tidal wave.
Period:
Marianowska 1855 - Martinique 1902
Polish School
Exhibitions:
Cracow
Literature:
E. Bénézit, "Dictionary of Artists", Paris 2006, Vol. 9, p. 812..
