Zofia Atteslander (12 March 1874 in Luborzyca – c. 1928 in Berlin) was a Polish painter, active from 1889–1928 in inter alia Berlin, Paris and Wiesbaden.

Biography

Primarily she began studying privately with

Jacek Malczewski Jacek Malczewski (; 15 July 1854 – 8 October 1929) was a Polish symbolist painter who is one of the most revered painters of Poland, associated with the patriotic Young Poland movement following a century of Partitions. He is regarded as the f ...

in Kraków, later with Franz von Lenbach, Heinrich Knirr (1862–1944), with Stanisław Grocholski in Munich, and since 1902 with Adolf Hölzel in

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. She specialised in

portrait painting Portrait Painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commission, for public and pr ...

and

still life A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, m ...

. During her stay in Wiesbaden in 1904 she painted portraits for the Romanian Royal Family. During her stay in Paris in 1908 she received an honour at the Saloon of French Artists. In 1904, she took part in Warsaw's Society of the Incentive for Fine Arts (''Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych''), as well as in 1903, in Kraków's Society of the Friends of Fine Arts (''Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych''). Apart from oil painting she also practised

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drawing. She has often marked her paintings with "Zo". The last documented information of Zofia Atteslander came from 1928.

Works

File:Zofia Atterslander Portret młodej kobiety z narcyzami.jpg, Portrait of a young woman
with narcissus File:Zofia Atteslander Portret kobiety 1916.jpg, Portrait of a woman File:Zofia Atteslander Dziewczynka w zielonym kapeluszu 1906.jpg, Girl with a green hat File: Zofia-atteslander-portret-dziewczyny-w-kapeluszu-1915.jpg, Portrait of a girl with a hat File: Portret Lady Stanhope.jpg, Portrait of Lady Stanhope (1912)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Atteslander, Zofia 1874 births 1928 deaths 19th-century Polish painters 20th-century Polish painters Polish women painters 19th-century Polish women artists 20th-century Polish women artists People from Kraków County