Zygmunt Sidorowicz

Zygmunt Sidorowicz (born April 1, 1846 in Lemberg , Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Austrian Empire , † May 5, 1881 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ) was an Austrian landscape and portrait painter .

Life

Zygmunt Sidorowicz was the son of the Roman Catholic Magistrate Concepter Michał Sidorowicz and Zuzanna von Lewakowski.

After a year-long visit to the polytechnic institute in Lemberg, Sidorowicz studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1864 to 1869 , among other things as a student of Eduard von Engerth . Here he was awarded in 1867 for his picture "Abel's Death".

After his academic training Sidorowicz returned to Lviv and worked for the satirical magazines "Mrówka" (1869 to 1870) and "Szczutek" (1872). Financed by a state grant, he traveled to Munich in 1871, where he became a member of the Münchner Kunstverein. Sidorowicz moved to Vienna in 1877 and exhibited his work there, as well as in Munich, Lemberg, Cracow and Warsaw.

Works (selection)

Sidorowicz's work mainly includes genre pictures such as “Zur Strafe” or “Difficult Narration”, small-format landscape pictures (“Night Landscape from Poland”) and portraits. His pictures are now in the National Museum Warsaw in Warsaw and in the art collection of Lviv (Lemberg). Other works are:

• Portrait of a mother , 1865
• Self-Portrait , 1869
• J. Sidorowicz , 1870
• Z. Sidorowiczowa , 1870
• Lady with a Hat , 1878
• Village Path in Autumn , 1878
• Landscape with Grove of Trees , 1879
• Landscape with bridge

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  Gypsy camp , 1876, National Museum Warsaw

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  Portrait of a Woman , 1878, National Museum Warsaw

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  A country road in autumn , 1878

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  Sunset , 1879

literature

• Sidorowicz, Zygmunt (1846-1881), Painter. In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists . ISBN 978-0-19977-378-7 , 2006.
• Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker : General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1907–1950
• Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century . 1898.
• A. Ryszkiewicz: Malarstwo polskie: romantyzm, historyzm, realizm . 1989.
• H. Stępień: Artyści polscy w środowisku monachijskim w latach 1828–1914 . 1994.

Web links

Commons : Zygmunt Sidorowicz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry Sidorowicz, Zygmunt . In: biographien.ac.at, Austrian Academy of Sciences , p. 225
• Zygmunt Sidorowicz (Polish, 1846-1881). In: artnet , with pictures of Sidorowicz's work.