Description: Joseph Mehoffer (1869-1946) in 1887 simultaneously undertook studies at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts and at the Faculty of Law at the Jagiellonian University, then continued his studies in Vienna. Thanks to the scholarship he received in March 1891, he went to Paris, where he studied at the local universities. He shared his...
Description: Lucien Simon (1861-1945) belonged to the circle of French painters. He studied in Paris, at Didier and Robert-Fleury’s Académie Julian. He was mainly interested in portrait representations and religious themes. Together with, among others, Charles Cottet and Andrè Dauchez (his cousin, a Breton painter) they formed the “Black School of Painting” – La Bande...
Description: Jack Malczewski (1854-1929) inherited a love for art and romantic literature, especially the poetry of Juliusz Slowacki, from his family home. He came from a noble but 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: Marie-Paule (Pauline) Carpentier (1876-1915) was a French painter and draughtswoman. She worked in oil and watercolor. She painted landscapes, nudes and figurative compositions. From 1899 she exhibited at the Paris Salons. In 1912, a solo exhibition of her work was held at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris. Description of the painting: “On the...
Description Henri Marret (1878-1964) inherited his talent for drawing from his father, who was a jeweler and designed his own jewelry. His father supported his son’s artistic endeavors from a young age, which resulted in Henri studying painting under Fernand Cormon, Ferdinand Humbert and Eugene Thirion. At the age of 23, he took part in...
Description: Paul Helleu (1859-1927) was a French painter and graphic artist, a student of Gérôme at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts. He combined the academic education he had obtained there with the experiences of his colleagues and friends, including C. Monet, J.S. Sargent, J. McNeill Whistler, G. Boldini, J.J. Tissot, and J.-E. Blanche represented in...
Description: Wlastimil Hofman, born in Karlin in the suburbs of Prague in 1881 to a Czech father and a Polish mother, moved to Krakow in 1889. In 1895, Hofman attended evening drawing classes at the School of Fine Arts in Florian Cynk’s studio. The following year, he dropped out of high school at the age...
Description: Roman Kochanowski (1857-1945) left the workshops of Władysław Łuszczkiewicz and Henryk Grabiński from the Krakow School of Fine Arts, and studied from 1875-80 in Christian Griepenkerl’s studio and landscape painter Eduard Lichtenfels’s studio in Vienna, where he won the gold medal. Since settling permanently in Munich in 1881, his former views of the Vistula...
Description: Gustave Lannes (1858-1923) was a member of the Société des Artistes Français since 1909, and his active salon activity at the Grand Palais took place between 1908-1914 and 1920-1922. In the artist’s artistic output, coastal and river landscapes predominate, from which we will take a closer look at the work “On the Coast”. Description...
Description: Johan Frits Thaulow (1847-1906) was a Norwegian landscape painter, graphic artist, and writer. He studied at the Academy in Copenhagen and Karlsruhe. His work was strongly influenced by visits to France, which inspired him to establish the “Freiluftakademie” as a reaction against the academic painting traditions in Norway. Ultimately, he moved to Northern France...
Description: Wlastimil Hofman (1881-1970) was born in Karlin, a suburb of Prague, Czech Republic, to a Czech father and a Polish mother. After moving to Krakow in 1889, his parents opened a shop with ornamental stones in the Cloth Hall. From 1895, Hofman attended evening drawing courses at the School of Fine Arts in Florian...
Description: Julian Fałat (1853-1929) studied at the Krakow School of Fine Arts and in Munich. He came from a peasant family, which shaped his artistic path. He became recognizable as an aquarellist, because as a poor student he chose the cheaper painting technique. He is also known as the “painter of hunts” because he held...
