Franciszek Żmurko (18 July 1859,

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– 9 October 1910,

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) was a Polish realist painter. Żmurko began drawing lessons as a young boy in his hometown with the painter Franciszek Tepa. As an adolescent he relocated to

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to study at the Academy of Fine Arts where he took lessons from Professor

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 ...

. In 1877 Żmurko moved to Vienna, Austria where he was accepted at the Vienna Academy, but left soon thereafter to study under Alexander von Wagner in Munich. Żmurko returned to Kraków in 1880 and then moved to Warsaw in 1882, where he remained until his death in 1910.

Notable works

* ''Zygmunt August i Barbara'' * ''Zuzanna i starcy'', 1879 * ''Z rozkazu padyszacha'', 1881 * ''Nubijczyk'', 1884 * ''Portret kobiety z wachlarzem'', 1884 * ''Widzenie Fausta'', 1890 * ''Kazimierz Wielki i Esterka'' * ''Portret kobiety z wachlarzem i papierosem'', 1891 * ''Autoportret z paletą'', 1895 * ''Portret młodej kobiety'', 1896 * ''Studium do obrazu "Laudamus feminam"'', c. 1900 * ''Półakt kobiecy'', c. 1900 * ''Una donna'' * ''Czarne warkocze'', 1907

Selected works

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'', 1906. Owned by the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw, inv. no. 369 ( lost between 1939 and 1945 (

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). Image:Z_rozkazu_padyszacha.jpg, By order of the

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, 1881 Image:ZmurkoFranciszek.1890.WidzenieFausta.jpg, Faust's Vision, 1890

External links

Gallery at Wikimedia CommonsBiography at Tom Podl Collection
19th-century Polish painters 19th-century Polish male artists 20th-century Polish painters 20th-century Polish male artists 1859 births 1910 deaths Polish male painters Painters from Austria-Hungary Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the Russian Empire {{Poland-painter-stub

Notable works

Selected works

See also

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