Description: “Landscape” is a work of an unknown painter signing himself “A.S.Jacobi”. He may be the same Adolf Jacobi born in 1856 and buried in Warsaw in 1903. It is unknown when this small composition was purchased by Edward Aleksander Raczyński. It is also difficult to say whether it was the desire to support the...
Description: Władysław Podkowiński (1866-1895) was a student of Wojciech Gerson. He completed an illustration internship. He then attended the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. In 1889 he left with Józef Pankiewicz to Paris. There, among other things, at the retrospective exhibition of Monet, he was fascinated by Impressionism. He was one of the...
Description: From the landscape studio of Christian Breslauer at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts emerged a younger, almost a generation younger, than Brodowski, Władysław Malecki (1836-1900), who studied there from 1852 to 1856. The landscape of the Vistula River was created during the artist’s eleven-year stay in Munich, where he went after completing his...
Description: Paul (Abbot Paul) Buffet (1864-1941) – a French artist and illustrator born in Paris specializing in historical, Oriental and landscape painting. From 1885 he trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Gustav Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. From 1886 he exhibited at the Salon de Société des Artistes Français, of which he became...
Description: Peter Stachiewicz (1858-1938). After graduating from the Lviv Polytechnic, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Krakow. The artist’s mentors were Feliks Szynalewski, Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, Florian Cynk and Leopold Loeffler. In the years 1882-1884 he studied at the Munich Academy with Otto Seitz. After a trip through Europe, he settled permanently in...
Description: Jack Malczewski (1854-1929) had a passion for art and romantic literature, especially the poetry of Juliusz Slowacki, which he inherited from his family. He came from a noble but not wealthy family. His father Julian supported him in his painting career. The events of 1863, the January Uprising and subsequent repression, left a deep...
Description: Rose-Marie Guillaume (1876- ?), a representative of French fin de siècle art, was one of the graduates of the Julian Academy in Paris. She was taught by William Adolphe Bougeureau, Jules J. Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury. For a long time, the painter remained unknown by her name and was referred to as “Mademoiselle R.-M....
Description: Charles J[ohann] Palmie (1863-1911), a German painter. He studied with Emil Rieck in Dresden and then continued his studies at the Dresden Academy. In 1884 he moved to Munich, where he continued his education. In his work he dealt with landscape painting. It is defined that he comes from the circle of landscape painters...
Description: André Dauchez (1870-1948) takes us to French Brittany. The landscape shows a view spreading from the slope of a small hill. Its edge is outlined in the foreground. The characteristic coastal line with numerous coves has been clearly reproduced by the artist. They are accompanied by vast stretches of sandy wild beaches covered with...
Description: André Dauchez (1870-1948) was a French painter. He studied in Paris under his future brother-in-law, Lucien Simon. He was drawn to the Breton theme under his influence and joined “La Bande Noire”, where he worked alongside such artists as Edmond Aman-Jean, Émile-René Ménard, Charles Cottet and Maurice Denis. He was a member of the...
Description: Wlastimil Hofman (1881-1970) was born in Karlin, a suburb of Prague, Czech Republic, as the son of a Czech and a Pole. After moving to Krakow in 1889, his parents opened a jewelry store in the Sukiennice. From 1895 Hofman attended evening drawing courses at the Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of...
