Odo Dobrowolski (born 1883 in
Chernivtsi
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, died 1917 in
Kiev
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) was a Polish painter.
Life
He was the son of Józef Dobrowolski, an official of the Gubernium of
Galicia, and Eugenia Wittich. Odo took his secondary education in
Lviv
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. He studied at the
Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts
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in
Kraków
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, most likely as an independent student. During his years in
Paris
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, between 1908 and 1909, he was guided by
Jan Styka
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. Afterwards, he took a short stay in
Munich
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, continuing onto
Lviv
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then on. In Lviv, he created a large
oil painting
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, illustrating the town square, put on display at
Gabriela Zapolska
Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska (1857–1921), known as Gabriela Zapolska, was a Polish novelist, playwright, naturalist writer, feuilletonist, theatre critic and stage actress. Zapolska wrote 41 plays, 23 novels, 177 short stories, 25 ...
's confectionary "Dworek" by 4 Akademicka Street. In the years of 1911–12, he returned to live in
Paris
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. In 1912, he took part in a presentation of drawings at the Leopolitan Literature-Art Grouping. During the
Russian army
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's occupation of Lviv, Odo, with the affirmation of the military's local censorship council, published his ten-piece portfolio of an
auto lithography of "Lwów 1914-15" ("Lviv 1914-15", costing 30 crowns), which received much popularity.
In June 1915, he moved to
Russia
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.
Gallery
File:Dobrowolski Comedie Française 1908.jpg, ''Comedie Française Paris''
(1908)
File:Dobrowolski Bulwar w sniegu 1909.jpg, ''A Snowy Boulevard''
(1909)
File:Spring (NBY 371).jpg, ''Spring''
(ca. 1909)
File:Woman standing in the forest, artist signed Dobrowolski (NBY 4994).jpg, ''A Woman Standing in the Forest''
(1910s)
File:Dobrowolski Paris night 1912.jpg, ''Paris by Night''
(1912)
File:Dobrowolski Pomnik Mickiewicza we Lwowie litografia 1915.jpg, ''Adam Mickiewicz Monument in Lviv'' (lithography)
(1915)
See also
*
List of Polish painters
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References
External links
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1883 births
1917 deaths
19th-century Polish painters
19th-century Polish male artists
20th-century Polish painters
20th-century Polish male artists
Polish male painters
Painters from the Russian Empire