Zdzisław Piotr Jasiński (18 January 1863 –18 November 1932) was a Polish painter, draftsman and

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. His first paintings were in the

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style, but his later, more well-known works were more

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Biography

He was born 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 ...

(then part of

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). His father owned a decorating business and was an elder in the painter's guild. His youngest brother, Józef (1876–1954), became a sculptor. He began his studies with

Wojciech Gerson Wojciech Gerson (; 1 July 1831 – 25 February 1901) was a Polish painter, educator, architect and art critic who was one of the foremost representatives of the Polish school of Realism during the foreign Partitions of Poland. He served as long ...

at the Warsaw School of Drawing (now part of the

Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw () is a public university of visual arts and applied arts located in the Polish capital. The academy traces its history back to the Department of Arts founded at the Warsaw University in the Duchy of Warsaw in 18 ...

). After finishing there, he moved to

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, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under Leopold Loeffler and

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 ...

. Thanks to a scholarship from the "" (Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts) he was able to study at the

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, where he was a pupil of Otto Seitz and Alexander von Wagner.Brief biography
@ Agra Art. In 1891, he received a gold medal for his painting ''The Sick Mother'' at a major exhibition in Berlin. Two years later, he won a medal at the

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. After 1893, he lived in Warsaw. From 1896 to 1897, he painted murals in Saint Petersburg and Moscow. He also did murals at the cathedral in

Włocławek Włocławek (; or ''Alt Lesle'', Yiddish: וולאָצלאַוועק, romanized: ''Vlatzlavek'') is a city in the Kuyavian–Pomeranian Voivodeship in central Poland along the Vistula River, bordered by the Gostynin-Włocławek Landscape Park ...

and the college in

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. In 1897, he spent some time in Rome, creating ceiling paintings. Four years later, he painted the scene ''Folk Music'' on the ceiling of the Warsaw Philharmonic concert hall, which was destroyed by a German bombing in 1939. In 1904, he moved to an estate near Przyłęk. He returned to Warsaw in 1910, however, and built a town house. Shortly after, he painted a

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of Saint

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at the nearby St. Barbara's Church, which was destroyed during World War II. In 1921 he was one of the co-founders of the group "Pro Arte", which was opposed to the abstract trends of modern art. Jasiński died on 18 November 1932 in Warsaw.

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ArtNet: More works by Jasiński.
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