Zefiryn (Zefir) Alojzy Ćwikliński Ceferino (February 6, 1871 in

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– July 24, 1930 in

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) - Polish painter, known primarily for painting in the Tatra mountains.

Biography

He graduated from high school in

, then for a year, he studied philosophy at the

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, and later, after moving to

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- in the years 1887-1889 - studied at the

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where he was the student of

Florian Cynk 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 Kraków and began his studies at the Academ ...

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 ...

, Feliks Szynalewski and

Izydor Jabłoński Izydor Jabłoński (born February 7, 1835, in Kraków, died November 13, 1905, therein) was a Polish painter, professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, friend and biographer of Jan Matejko. Biography In the years of 1848 to ...

. In 1893, he received a scholarship and continued his studies at the

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with a historical painter and portraitist Christian Griepenkerl. He specialised in historic paintings, portraits and those of different genres. With the lack of financial resources he was forced to return to the country. After returning home, he was a teacher of art in

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and

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. As a result of political conflicts with school authorities he was dismissed. In 1898 he went to

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and

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, where he spent half a year studying landscape painting. In 1904 he was one of the ''Grupa Sześciu'' in

Works of art

At first he created paintings of fairy-tale themes, he also worked as an illustrator (he published illustrations every

fortnight in the "Faun" magazine, but also had illustrated books). He had been strongly influenced by

Władysław Podkowiński Władysław Podkowiński (; 4 February 1866 – 5 January 1895) was a Polish master painter and illustrator associated with the Young Poland movement during the Partition period. Career Podkowiński was born in Warsaw and began his artist ...

. Around 1897 he also made landscape paintings, of the area around

. He arrived to the property of Stanisław Jerzy Hofmokl who in the village of Zarzecze bought an estate and mansion from the Kostheimów. When arriving he had painted landscapes and the Zarzecka chapel, "Zarzecze thought to be one of the most beautiful parts of Poland". In 1908 he settled in

and since then he painted mostly landscapes of the Tatra Mountains, which are shown at exhibitions. He created many post cards which popularised the Tatra Mountains and him in the region. His popular and most notable works of art include: *''Pejzaże śródziemnomorskie 5 obrazów współoprawionych'', oil on canvas, 31,7 × 54,5 cm *''Cyprysy'', oil on canvas, 123 × 81 cm *''Pejzaż'', oil on canvas, 8,5 × 11,5 cm *''Portret góralki'', oil on canvas, 63 × 68 cm *''Góralka'', after 1910, oil on canvas, 63 × 60 cm *''Portret dziewczynki'', watercolour on paper, 22 × 16 cm *''Kozi Wierch'', 1911–1912, oil on canvas, 90,5 × 116 cm *''Pniak w lesie'', 1913, oil on canvas, 30,8 × 41,5 cm *''Czarny Staw'', 1920, private *''Krajobraz górski'', 1922 *''Pejzaż górski z limbą'', oil on canvas *''Pejzaż górski'', oil on canvas, 30 × 40 cm *''Baca z owcami'', 1923, oil on canvas *''Hala Kondratowa'', oil on canvas *''Wypas owiec w górach'', 1921, oil on canvas *''Wypas owiec w górach'', 1924, oil on canvas, 31 × 35 cm *''Wypas owiec'', 1924, pastel on canvas, 49 × 68,5 cm *''Pejzaż tatrzański'', 1925, oil on plywood *''Kwitnąca jabłoń'', 1926, oil on canvas, 35,5 × 30 cm, private *''Łąka w górach'', oil on canvas, 21,5 × 38 cm, private *''Czarny Staw'', 1926, oil on canvas, 31,5 × 36 cm, private *''Limby nad Morskim Okiem'', 1927, oil, tempera on canvas, 30,8 × 35,5 cm *''Owce na hali tatrzańskiej'' (part of the Eastern Doliny Stawów Gąsienicowych with a view of the peaks of Kościelca), 1927, oil on canvas, 30 x 35,2 *''Cielę przed szałasem w górach'', 1929, oil on canvas.

Membership in organisations

Ćwikliński belonged to

's Union of Artists, he was also active in the Association of the Public Library.

Selected exhibitions

*Exhibitions in Kraków's

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(1892, 1893, 1894), and in the city

. *The first thematic exhibition of landscape paintings in the Tatra house "Jutrzenka" in

, in December 1909. *Exhibition in Kraków's

for Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych, February–March 1912, 48 landscape paintings of the Tatra Mountains. *In

in 1931 was held his posthumous exhibition. He exhibited in Lviv, Warsaw and Kraków, as well as abroad in (London, Kiev, Vienna, Budapest, Chicago). In 1930 at the international exhibition of mountaineering in Budapest his painting under the title of ''Limba'' had been distinguished and awarded. File:Zefiryn Ćwikliński Czarny Staw 1926.jpg, ''Czarny Staw'' File:Zefiryn Ćwikliński Kozi Wierch 1911.jpg, ''Kozi Wierch'' File:Zefiryn Ćwikliński Łąka w górach.jpg, ''Łąka w górach'' File:Zefiryn Ćwikliński Kwitnąca jabłoń 1926.jpg, ''Kwitnąca jabłoń''

References

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