Edmund Osterloff – artysta obrazu
Edmund Osterloff – Artist of the Image

Summary/Abstract: Edmund Osterloff (1863-1938) is one of the precursors of Polish art photography and a representative of a current known as pictorialism, the author of already classical works included into so-called native photography. His most complete statements assumed the form of photographic landscapes and studio portraits executed brilliantly in the bromoil technique. Already prior to the First World War Osterloff’s works were awarded abroad and then brought their author the acclaim of a “Polish Léonard Misonne” as well as an invitation to join the elitist Polish Photo-club established in 1930. B. Osterloff used unknown documents to present the unusual biography of this Pole by choice and émigré-exile, who spent 25 years in Georgia where he inaugurated his career as an artist. Naturally, the coincidence of names is not accidental – the author and the titular protagonist of the essay are related.

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