Description: Wlastimil Hofman (1881-1970) was born in Karlin, a suburb of Prague, Czech Republic, to a Czech father and a Polish mother. In 1889 his family moved to Krakow and opened a decorative stone shop in the Sukiennice. From 1895, Hofman attended evening drawing classes at the School of Fine Arts in Florian Cynk’s studio....
Description: Albert Dakin Gihon (1866-1950) was an American landscape painter. He initially studied with Thomas Eakins in Philadelphia before traveling to Paris to study at the Académie Julian. He represented the United States at numerous Salons of Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and Société des Artistes Français, as well as the Universal Exhibition. He was a...
Description: Henri Thiérot (1863-1905) was a French painter. He only created for ten years, mainly landscapes, portraits and genre scenes. He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian in Paris. He was taught by Henri Levy, Jules Lefebvre, and Henri Bramtot. He visited Belgium, Holland, and Brittany. At the end of his creative...
Description: Ignacio Zuloaga (1870-1945) studied painting in Rome and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. While living in France, he was in contact with Gauguin, Rodin and Degas. From 1899 he returned permanently to Spain. He created under the influence of Manet and Goya. In his work he dealt with landscape painting, portraiture and...
Description: Alexander Gierymski (1850-1901) began his studies in the Warsaw Drawing Class and continued at the Munich Academy, which he graduated with awards in 1872. After returning from Italy, he lived in Warsaw, where he collaborated with Stanisław Witkiewicz, among others, on the magazine “Wędrowiec”. At this time he painted genre scenes and portraits of...
Description: Lucien Hector Monod (1867-1957) was a French painter and lithographer. His work was derived from the symbolism movement. He painted in the Art Nouveau style and the 18th century French Rococo. He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris*. His works are characterized by capturing unique colors, especially shaded parts, long hours of observation...
Description: Władysław Ostrowski (1878-9142) began his studies in Wojciech Gerson’s Drawing Class in Warsaw and continued from 1895-1901 in the studios of Florian Cynk, Jacek Malczewski, Teodor Axentowicz and Leon Wyczółkowski at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. After his stay in Munich, he went to Paris, where he studied for a year at...
Description: Stefan Filipkiewicz (1879-1944) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, among others, under Jan Stanislawski, whom he was a successor to. He exhibited his paintings throughout Europe and received numerous awards. He mainly dealt with landscape painting, in which winter views of the Tatra Mountains and Podhale predominated. Description of the painting:...
Description: Eugène Cadel (1862-1942) was a French painter and draftsman. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian. He exhibited at the Salon Société des Artistes Français and Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He painted pointillist works, as well as realistic religious representations. He also engaged in satirical works, referring to the situation in...
Description: Jacques-Emile Blanche (1861-1942) came from a medical family. His father ran a psychiatric clinic, where many painters, writers and musicians were treated. Contact with them inspired Blanche to paint, and later to write. Among the artists he met were Manet, Degas, Whistler, Proust and Renoir, Delacroix, Corot, Degas, Puvis de Chavannes, Sand, Gautier, Liszt,...
Description: Jack Malczewski (1854-1929) was raised in a noble but impoverished family, with a love for art and Romantic literature, particularly the poetry of Julius Słowacki. In 1863, the January Uprising and subsequent repression made a deep impression on the young artist. His first teacher was Adolf Dygasiński. From 1867 to 1871, he spent his...
Description: Albert Edelfelt (1854-1905) was a Finnish artist, mainly known for his historical, genre and portrait paintings. His compositions of a religious nature occupy a rather narrow range of interests, noticeable only in the 1890s. He came from a wealthy family, his father worked as an architect and it was from him that he received...
