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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

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in Kraków with

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and

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

. 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 oil ...

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 ''

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'' and other periodicals. In 1886, he was elected President of the

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. 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

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. 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 and poet, as well as interior and furniture designer. A patriotic writer, he created a series of symbolic, national dramas withi ...

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Jan Wojnarski Jan Józef Wojnarski (1 December 1879, Tarnów - 14 October 1937, Kraków) was a Polish painter, graphic artist and art professor. Biography His father was a church organist. From 1902, he studied at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, under the t ...

Ludwik Stasiak Ludwik Józef Stasiak (13 August 1858, Bochnia - 3 December 1924, 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 ' (Ivy), ...

Artur Markowicz Artur Markowicz (1872 – 1934) was a Jewish realist painter and graphic artist born in Podgórze district of Kraków (Cracow), Poland. He is best known for his numerous pastels of street scenes in the historic Jewish town of Kazimierz – now one ...

Wojciech Weiss Wojciech Weiss (4 May 1875 – 7 December 1950) was a prominent Polish painter and draughtsman of the Young Poland movement. Weiss was born in Bukovina to a Polish family in exile of Stanisław Weiss and Maria Kopaczyńska. He gave up music ...

Ludwik Misky Ludwik de Delney Misky (1884 – 1938) was a Polish painter in the Post-Impressionistic style. Biography His family was originally from Hungary. After finishing his primary education in Wadowice, he entered the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts ...

, Józef Rapacki, Stefan Filipkiewicz,

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and

Zefiryn Ćwikliński Zefiryn (Zefir) Alojzy Ćwikliński Ceferino (February 6, 1871 in Lviv – July 24, 1930 in Zakopane) - Polish painter, known primarily for painting in the Tatra mountains. Biography He graduated from high school in Lviv, then for a year, ...

. Cynk died in Kraków on 10 October 1912.

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