Description: Albert Baertsoen (1866-1922) was a Belgian painter and printmaker. He was a student of L. Tytgats and Is. Meyers, but his art was most influenced by J. Delvin, director of the Academy in Ghent. Baertson was called by critics the painter of dead cities, as his compositions were often deserted. His paintings were often...
Description: Bernard-Léon Eymieu (1828-1907) was a French painter. He regularly exhibited at the Salons. In his work he was engaged in landscape painting. His inspirations were views of his family‘s hometown and Brittany*. Description of the painting: The painting “Street in Saillans“ shows the alley of the artist‘s hometown. The view opens with an arched...
Description: Paul Albert Besnard (1849-1934), the author of “Horses Bitten by Flies“, one of the first works purchased for the Rogalin Gallery by Edward Alexander Raczynski, made a great impression on the collection‘s owner. Two more paintings by this painter appeared in the Raczynski collection: “Smile“ and “Woman with Blue Drapery“. Besnard “had early developed...
Description: Clémentine–Hélène Dufau (1869–1937) studied at the Académie Julian in Paris. She was a painter and lithographer. She studied with William–Adolphe Bouguereau, Gabriel Ferrier, and Tony Robert–Fleury. Her early works are examples of allegorical painting, also in a monumental form, adorning the walls of the Sorbonne. She was most interested in nudes set against the...
Description: Ludwik Stasiak (1858-1924) was born in a middle–class family in Bochnia near Krakow. After graduating from high school in Krakow, he began studying philosophy and painting. He abandoned the first direction after two years, focusing on creativity. In the years 1897–1880 he perfected his craft under the eyes of, among others, Jan Matejko. After...
Description: Emile Claus (1849-1924) was a Belgian painter who attended a drawing course in Waeregem since he was very young. He studied at the Academy of Antwerp, which he left to pursue independent education. His creativity was influenced by his 1879 journey to Spain and Morocco, where he was amazed by the light phenomena. This...
Description: Born in the Netherlands, Hendrik Willebrord Jansen (1855-1908) trained in the Amsterdam Academy in the studios of Augustus Allebé and Barend Wijnveld. At the beginning of the twentieth century he was one of the most famous artists in his country. In 1895, three years after moving to Amsterdam, he married his student Sophie Grothe,...
Description: Emile Georges Giran (1870-1902) was a French painter, educated in Paris. He first presented his works at the Salon Société des Artistes Français in 1890, and for the following years he exhibited at the Salons Société Nationale des Beaux–Arts. He was engaged in landscape and portrait painting in oil and pastel techniques. A popular...
Description: Henri-Jules-Ferdinand Bellery-Desfontaines (1867-1910), known as Henri Bellery–Desfontaines was a French painter, a representative of Art Nouveau. He was mainly engaged in applied art, lithography, and made illustrations for books, magazines and vignettes due to financial reasons. He was interested in posters. He designed banknotes and fonts. He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris...
Description: Władysław Podkowiński (1866-1895) studied at the Warsaw Drawing Class under Wojciech Gerson from 1880–1885. For one year he attended the Imperial Academy in Petersburg as a free listener. In 1889, together with Józef Pankiewicz, he went to Paris. There, Claude Monet‘s retrospective exhibition had a huge impact on his creativity, inspiring him to receive...
Description: Teodor Grott (1884-1972) studied at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts, among others, under Leon Wyczółkowski. He visited Paris, London, Brussels and Italy. He lived in Krakow. He exhibited at the Warsaw Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts and at the Krakow Society of Friends of the Fine Arts. He mainly created...
Description: Jack Malczewski (1854-1929) was deeply influenced by his family’s love of art and Romantic literature, particularly the poetry of Juliusz Słowacki. He came from a noble, albeit not wealthy, family. His father, Julian, supported him on his path to becoming a painter. The events of 1863, the January Uprising and subsequent repression, left an...
