Poznań, J. Bułhak – a statue in front of the entrance to the Grand Theater, as seen in a photograph from 1925.

[POZNAŃ — statue on the facade of the Stanisław Moniuszko Grand Theater in Poznań — panoramic photograph]. [1925]. Photograph, dimensions 16.7 x 11.9 cm, by JanBułhak in Vilnius.
A view of the figure (sculpture by Georges Morin (1874–1950)) located on the right (eastern) side "Drama," depicted as a man (the young Dionysus, the Greek god of theater) with a laurel wreath on his temples, walking with a panther or leopard at his side. In the lower right corner, the imprint: “J. Bułhak Vilnius.” The photograph belongs to the author’s series “Poland in Photographs by Jan Bułhak.” On the reverse, a stamp: “POLAND in photographic pictures by J. Bułhak. No. Poznań (Posen) Fragment Theátre [written in ink] / J. Bułhak, Pictorial Photographer, 8 Jagiellońska Street. Vilnius (Poland) / The collection contains 6,000 pictures / Copyright by J. Bułhak, Vilnius 1925" and a handwritten identification in ink, in Italian. Aside from slight wear on the corners, the condition is very good.
J. Bułhak (1876–1950)—an outstanding Polish photographer, the doyen of Polish photography, a philosopher and theorist, founder of the Vilnius Photo Club in 1927, and a co-founder of ZPAF after World War II. He established his first studio at the urging of Ferdynand Ruszczyc. For a time, he worked in Hugo Erfurt’s studio in Dresden. His first works in Vilnius were created between 1912 and 1919 and were devoted mainly to landscapes and monumental architecture. It was precisely these themes that became central to his work, and he focused primarily on them for the rest of his life. He was a pioneer of landscape photography. His collection of approximately 10,000 photographs, *Poland in Photographic Landscapes*, along with a photo archive of Polish and foreign images, were destroyed by fire in Vilnius in 1944. After the war, until 1946, he took approximately 1,000 photographs documenting the destruction and reconstruction of Warsaw and about 2,000 photographs of the Western Territories. He published numerous albums, portfolios, and postcards featuring photographs, mainly from the Eastern Borderlands and especially those depicting the Vilnius region. He was also the author of many textbooks on the aesthetics and techniques of photography and regional studies, as well as the initiator of historical research on photography.