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 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 Pol ...

under

Jan Matejko Jan Alojzy Matejko (; also known as Jan Mateyko; 24 June 1838 – 1 November 1893) was a Poles, Polish painting, painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. His works includ ...

, then attended the

Academy of Fine Arts, Munich The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, also known as Munich Academy) is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany. It is located in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich, in Bavaria, ...

, 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 and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Early life Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in M ...

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Career

He served as Director 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 ...

and traveled extensively, visiting Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt. From 1893 to 1918, he was a professor at the

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in Vienna, where he painted many portraits at the Imperial Court and became a member of the

Vienna Secession The Vienna Secession (german: Wiener Secession; also known as ''the Union of Austrian Artists'', or ''Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs'') is an art movement, closely related to Art Nouveau, that was formed in 1897 by a group of Austri ...

.''Ulrich Thieme (Hg.), Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig, 1933, XXVII, 169 f.'' He returned to Poland in 1919 and continued to paint portraits of notable people, including

Henryk Sienkiewicz Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz ( , ; 5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916), also known by the pseudonym Litwos (), was a Polish writer, novelist, journalist and Nobel Prize laureate. He is best remembered for his historical novels, especi ...

, Leon Piniński,

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and

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (28 July 1812 – 19 March 1887) was a Polish writer, publisher, historian, journalist, scholar, painter, and author who produced more than 200 novels and 150 novellas, short stories, and art reviews, which makes him the ...

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Gallery

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Eustachy Stanisław Sanguszko Prince Eustachy Stanisław Sanguszko (28 August 1842 – 2 April 1903) was a Polish noble ( szlachcic) and conservative politician. Eustachy educated in Poland and Paris in 1859–1860. He studied law at the Jagiellonian University from 186 ...

, 1896,

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Andrzej Kazimierz Potocki Andrzej is the Polish language, Polish form of the given name Andrew. Notable individuals with the given name Andrzej

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, 1903,

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, 1940,

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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pochwalski, Kazimierz 1855 births 1940 deaths Portrait painters Artists from Kraków 19th-century Polish painters 19th-century Polish male artists 20th-century Polish painters 20th-century Polish male artists Polish male painters

Early life

Career

Gallery

See also

References

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