Stanisław Kuczborski (1881 in

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

– 1911 in Warsaw) was a Polish

modernist Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

painter, graphic artist and

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. His mother, Klotylda Kuczborska (née Gierymska) was a sister of renowned painters

Aleksander Gierymski Ignacy Aleksander Gierymski (30 January 1850, Warsaw – d. 6–8 March 1901, Rome) was a Polish painter of the late 19th century, the younger brother of Maksymilian Gierymski. He was a representative of Realism as well as an important prec ...

and

Maksymilian Gierymski Maksymilian Dionizy Gierymski (1846 in Warsaw – 1874 in Reichenhall, Bavaria) was a Polish painter, specializing mainly in watercolours. He was the older brother of painter Aleksander Gierymski. As a seventeen-year-old boy, he participat ...

. Kuczborski studied painting in

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at the

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under

Leon Wyczółkowski Leon Jan Wyczółkowski (; 11 April 1852 – 27 December 1936) was a Polish painter and educator who was one of the leading painters of the Young Poland movement, as well as the principal representative of Polish Realism (arts), Realism in art of ...

and Jan Stanisławski before continuing his art education in Paris. He was a co-founder and participant of the legendary

Zielony Balonik Zielony Balonik (literally, ''the Green Balloon'') was a popular literary cabaret founded in Kraków by the local poets, writers and artists during the final years of the Partitions of Poland. The venue was a gourmet restaurant of Apolinary J. Mic ...

art-and-literary cabaret in Kraków. His lithographs published in ''Liberum Veto'' and ''Hrabia Wojtek'', appeared in ''Teka Melpomeny'' collection (1904) about personalities in the local theatre. One of his better-known paintings inspired by the

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movement is ''the Funeral'' (1904), depicting village folk from Bronowice. Stanisław Kuczborski (1881–1911).
National Museum in Krakow. The Gallery of 20th Century Polish Art. Kuczborski married Zofia Munk with whom he had a daughter, Irena Kuczborska (1907–1971), also a fine arts painter. Stanisław Kuczborski
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Stanisław Kuczborski's gallery
at

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Kuczborski's paintings
at ''"Dessa.pl" auction house''.

''"Dessa.pl" auction house''. 1881 births 1911 deaths 20th-century Polish painters 20th-century Polish male artists Polish portrait painters Polish male painters {{Poland-painter-stub