Leon Wyczółkowski

Polish painter, graphic artist and draughtsman. Leon Wyczółkowski was born on 24 April 1852 in Huta Miastkowska, in the Garwolin district. He died on 27 December 1936 in Warsaw. He began his artistic education in 1869 at the Warsaw School of Drawing and Painting under the tutelage of, among others, Gerson, where he studied until 1875. He then studied in Munich until 1876. Between 1879 and 1880, he studied in Kraków in the studio of Jan Matejko. The artist's work was greatly influenced by his numerous trips to Ukraine and Podolia. In 1895, he became a professor of painting at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków. He spent the autumn of his life in his "place on earth" Gościeradz near Bydgoszcz. Towards the end of his life, between 1934 and 1936, he held the chair of graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In accordance with his wishes, Wyczółkowski was buried at the parish cemetery in Wtelno near Bydgoszcz.