Kasimir Pochwalsky
Kasimir Pochwalski (born December 25, 1855 in Kraków ; † September 7, 1940 there ) was a Polish portrait , landscape and genre painter and university professor .
life and work
Pochwalski, studied at the Cracow Art Academy under Jan Matejko and at the Munich Academy under Alexander Maximilian Seitz and A. Wagner. Study trips took him to Paris in 1883 , where he was particularly influenced by Léon Bonnat ; Italy ( Rome ), Greece , Turkey and Egypt . From 1893 to 1918 Pochwalski was a professor at the Vienna Academy . In 1896 he received a large gold medal at the International Art Exhibition in Berlin .
After the First World War , Pochwalski lived and worked in Krakow, where he died in 1940. Some of his works are now in Austrian museums, such as the Army History Museum in Vienna, but mainly in Polish ones, such as B. the National Museum in Krakow or the National Museum in Warsaw .
Works (excerpt)
- Portrait of Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este , 1914. Oil on canvas, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna.
- Self-Portrait , 1895, oil on canvas, 161 × 110 cm, National Museum Warsaw
literature
- Ulrich Thieme (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Leipzig, 1912.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich Thieme (ed.), General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present. Leipzig, 1933, XXVII, 169 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pochwalsky, Kasimir |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish portrait, landscape and genre painter and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krakow |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1940 |
| Place of death | Krakow |