Description: Wojciech Weiss (1875 – 1950) was born in Romania, from where in 1888 he and his parents moved to Poland. After graduating from the Krakow Gymnasium, he began studying at the School of Fine Arts. Numerous European travels allowed the artist to get acquainted with the contemporary artistic trends, the reception of which can...
Description: Peter Stachiewicz (1858-1938) graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic and the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts, including Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, and then continued his studies at the Munich Academy with Oliver Seitz. He also visited Paris, Italy, and Holland. He became the head of the Art Department of the Higher Courses for Women named after A....
Description: Leon Wyczółkowski (1852-1936) often visited Ukraine since the 1880s. He visited Kazimierz Podhorski in Berezne, his brother Michał and his sons – Władysław and Stefan*. Later he remembered, “I left in the night and in the morning I couldn’t get enough. I couldn’t remain indifferent to the beauty of nature. The most beautiful country....
Description: Jack Malczewski (1854-1929) had a deep love for art and romantic literature, especially the poetry of Juliusz Słowacki, which he learned from his family home. He came from a noble, albeit not wealthy, family. His father Julian supported him on his path to a career in painting. The events of 1863, the January Uprising...
Description: Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929) inherited his love for art and romantic literature, especially the poetry of Juliusz Słowacki, from his family home. He came from an aristocratic, albeit impoverished, family. His father Julian supported him on the path of a painting career. The events of 1863, the January Uprising and subsequent repression, left a deep...
Description: Hippolyte Durand-Tahier (1863-1899) known as Paul Froment was born in 1863 in Saint-Nazaire, into a family of doctors from Nantes. He was an art critic, journalist, Parnassian poet and self-taught painter. In 1890 he became the First Secretary General of the recently reorganized Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He was a friend of Maxime Maufra...
Description: Joseph Brodowski (1828-1900) was the son of the painter Antoni Brodowski. From 1844 to 1850 he studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts. He graduated with honors. His professor was, among others, Rafał Hadzewicz. Then he left with Wojciech Garson to Russia. In the years 1853-1856 he continued his studies at the Academy...
Description: Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929) had a love for art and romantic literature, particularly the poetry of Juliusz Słowacki, which he inherited from his family. He came from a noble but not wealthy family. His father Julian supported him in his career as a painter. The events of 1863, the January Uprising and subsequent repression, had...
Description: Wacław Koniuszko (1854-1900) studied painting at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts and the Munich Academy. In 1885, an illness that caused partial paralysis prevented him from painting, but after ten years he began to learn painting again under the guidance of Wyczółkowski. He died, finally defeated by the disease at the age of...
Description: Laureà Barrau i Buñol (1863-1957) was a Spanish artist born in Barcelona. After completing high school, he simultaneously studied at the School of Engineering, following in his father’s footsteps to obtain a technical education, and at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. There he met Claudia Lorenzale and Antoni Caba, from whom he...
Description: Etienne Dinet (1861-1929) was a French painter, illustrator and orientalist. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris with Pierre-Victor Galland, at the Académie Julian – with William Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. In 1882, he and Lucien Simon visited Algeria. Thanks to an artistic scholarship, he arrived there again in 1884. He was...
Description: Georges Guillaume Roger (1867-1943) was a French painter. He studied in Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme. He regularly exhibited his works at the Paris salons. He was involved in genre painting, portraiture, but also landscapes and seascapes. He was inspired by views of Brittany and the Netherlands*. Description of the painting: The painting “Red House...
