Kazimierz Teofil Pochwalski (25 December 1855 – 7 November 1940) was a Polish painter known primarily for his portraits, although he produced works in a wide variety of genres.

Early life

Pochwalski was born in

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on 25 December 1855 and came from a family that produced several generations of painters and his younger brother Władysław also became a well-known artist. From 1871 to 1879, he studied at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts under

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 ...

, then attended the

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, from 1879 to 1888. This was followed by studies in Vienna and Paris, where he was influenced by the work of

Léon Bonnat Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (; 20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur, art collector and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Early life Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 ...

.Ilustrowana Encyklopedia Trzaski, General ed. Stanislas Lami, Evert and Michalski, Warsaw (1927-1938)

Career

He served as Director of the Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts and traveled extensively, visiting Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt. From 1893 to 1918, he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he painted many portraits at the Imperial Court and became a member of the

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.''Ulrich Thieme (Hg.), Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig, 1933, XXVII, 169 f.'' He returned to his native Kraków in 1919. Notable people painted by Pochwalski include

Henryk Sienkiewicz Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz ( , ; 5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916), also known by the pseudonym Litwos (), was a Polish epic writer. He is remembered for his historical novels, such as The Trilogy, the Trilogy series and especially ...

Leon Piniński Leon Jan Piniński (8 March 1857 – 4 April 1938) was a Polish scholar, diplomat, art historian and politician. A professor of Roman law and one-time rector of the Lwów University (1928–1929), he devoted much of his life to a political caree ...

, Agenor Maria Gołuchowski and

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (28 July 1812 – 19 March 1887) was a Polish novelist, journalist, historian, publisher, painter, and musician. Born in Warsaw into a noble family, he spent much of his youth with his maternal grandparents in Romanów ...

Gallery

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, 1896,

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, after 1890,

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of Austria'', 1910 File:Stanisław Niezabitowski.jpg, , 1928

References

External links

Pochwalski family website: Detailed biography

Pochwalski family website: More works by Pochwalski

ArtNet: More works by Pochwalski

Arcadja: More works by Pochwalski
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Early life

Career

Gallery

See also

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