Florian Stanisław Cynk (3 May 1838 – 10 October 1912) was a Polish painter, notably of religious subjects, and a prominent art teacher. He also worked as an illustrator.

Biography

He was born in

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and began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków with

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and

Władysław Łuszczkiewicz Władysław Łuszczkiewicz (3 September 1828 – 23 May 1900) was a Polish historian and painter of the late Romanticism in Poland, Romantic era from Kraków, active in the period of the foreign partitions of Poland. He was a professor at the Jan ...

. Later, he attended the

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(1862-1863) and the

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(1863-1867). In 1877, he was appointed a Professor of drawing at his alma mater, the Kraków Academy. While there, he made copies of works by

Jan Matejko Jan Alojzy Matejko (; also known as Jan Mateyko; 24 June 1838 – 1 November 1893) was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. His works include large scale ...

that would be turned into

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s, and he helped Matejko plot the perspective on his huge paintings. He also provided illustrations for '' Tygodnik Illustrowany'' and other periodicals. In 1886, he was elected President of the Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts. In 1888, he painted "Our Lady of the Polish Crown" for the altar of a church in Stryj and, together with Matejko, created portraits of Saints Kinga and

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at a church in Stary Wiśnicz. Many of his students would become well-known artists; including

Stanisław Wyspiański Stanisław Mateusz Ignacy Wyspiański (; 15 January 1869 – 28 November 1907) was a Polish playwright, painter, poet, and interior and furniture designer. A patriotic writer, he created symbolic national dramas accordant with the artisti ...

, Piotr Stachiewicz, Jan Wojnarski,

Ludwik Stasiak Ludwik Józef Stasiak (13 August 1858 in Bochnia – 3 December 1924 in Bochnia) was a Polish painter, cartoonist, journalist, art historian and publisher. He worked in a wide variety of genres and provided illustrations for magazines such as ' (I ...

, Artur Markowicz,

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, Ludwik Misky, Józef Rapacki, Stefan Filipkiewicz, Władysław Benda and Zefiryn Ćwikliński. Cynk died in Kraków on 10 October 1912.

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