Jan Rubczak (18 January 1882, Stanisławów – 27 May 1942, Auschwitz) was a Polish Postimpressionist painter and engraver.

Biography

From 1904 to 1911, he was enrolled at the

Kraków Academy of Fine Arts The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków ( pl, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie, usually abbreviated to ''ASP''), is a public institution of higher education located in the centre of Kraków, Poland. It is the oldest P ...

, where he studied with Florian Cynk and

Józef Pankiewicz Józef Pankiewicz (29 November 1866, in Lublin – 4 July 1940, in La Ciotat) was a Polish impressionist painter, graphic artist and teacher who spent much of his career in France. Biography From 1884 to 1885, he studied at the School of Fine Ar ...

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@ Culture.pl Later, he attended the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig and the

Académie Colarossi The Académie Colarossi (1870–1930) was an art school in Paris founded in 1870 by the Italian model and sculptor Filippo Colarossi. It was originally located on the Île de la Cité, and it moved in 1879 to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the ...

in Paris. In 1911, he exhibited at the

Salon d'Automne The Salon d'Automne (; en, Autumn Salon), or Société du Salon d'automne, is an art exhibition held annually in Paris, France. Since 2011, it is held on the Champs-Élysées, between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, in mid-October. The f ...

and had his first solo exhibition in 1913. The following year, he displayed his etchings at the

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

.Brief biography
@ the Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny. He made numerous trips to Brittany and Normandy, where he painted coastal scenes. His agent and patron was the well-known poet and art dealer,

Léopold Zborowski Léopold Zborowski (1889–1932) was a Polish poet, writer and art dealer. He was born in Zaleszczyki into a Jewish family. Zborowski and his wife Anna (Hanka Zborowska) were contemporaries with Parisian artists such as Chaïm Soutine, André De ...

. In 1915, he became one of the co-founders of the "Société des Artistes Polonaise". After 1917, he ran his own drawing school in Paris. He continued to exhibit throughout Poland and internationally. In 1924, he returned to a newly independent Poland, where he taught at the "Free School of Painting and Drawing". The following year, he was one of the co-founders of the artists guild, "" (Unicorn). From 1931 to 1932, he worked at the Kraków Academy as an assistant to

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 ...

. During this time, he became member of the

Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts The Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts ( pl, Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie, TPSP) is a social group of artists, artisans and their supporters founded in Kraków in 1854, under the Austrian Partition of Poland. Today, the ...

, where he served in an organizational capacity. In 1942, after a long convalescence from a heart ailment, he left his home to visit a café that was frequented by artists and writers and got caught up in a

Gestapo The (), abbreviated Gestapo (; ), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe. The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one or ...

raid. He and a group of other "

degenerate Degeneracy, degenerate, or degeneration may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Degenerate'' (album), a 2010 album by the British band Trigger the Bloodshed * Degenerate art, a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to descr ...

" artists were taken to Montelupich Prison, then transferred to Auschwitz, where he was shot to death.

Selected paintings

File:Rubczak-Cityscape.jpg, ''Townscape at the Seaside'',

National Museum, Wrocław The National Museum in Wrocław ( pl, Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu), established 28 March 1947 and officially inaugurated on 11 July 1948, is one of Poland's main branches of the National Museum system. It holds one of the largest collections o ...

File:Rubczak-Railway.jpg, ''The Kraków-

Płaszów Płaszów is a suburb of Kraków, Poland, now part of Podgórze district. Formerly a separate village, it became a part of the Greater Kraków in 1911 under the Austrian Partition of Poland as the 21st cadastral district of the city. During ...

Railway'' File:Rubczak-Churches.jpg, ''Landscape with Two Churches'' File:Rubczak-Chapel.jpg, ''Chapel with Ruins''

References

External links

ArtNet: More works by Rubczak
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rubczak, Jan 1882 births 1942 deaths Polish people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp 20th-century Polish painters 20th-century Polish male artists Polish civilians killed in World War II People from Ivano-Frankivsk Polish landscape painters Académie Colarossi alumni Polish male painters