Dimensions: 39.5 x 29.5 cm (dimensions of the binding)
Volume on Polish painting compiled by Feliks Jasieński and Adam Lada-Cybulski, published in Lviv in 1910 by Herman Altenberg Bookstore. Title page in the form of a color lithograph made to order. Original cover
Biography
He was a painter, printmaker, decorator, stage designer and educator. He studied painting in 1887-94 at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow under W. Luszczkiewicz and J. Matejko, while simultaneously studying law at the Jagiellonian University. He continued his studies at Parisian universities: Académie Julian, Académie Colarossi (under P. - J. Blanc, G. Courtois) and École des Beaux-Arts (under L. Bonnat). After his studies in 1894-96, he alternated between the country, Paris and Switzerland. For his design of stained-glass windows for the Freiburg collegiate church, he was awarded first prize in an international competition (the stained-glass windows were completed until 1934). In 1896 he settled in Cracow, and from 1900 he was a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts. He was a member and co-founder of the Society of Polish Artists Art (1897). He painted decorative portraits, symbolic compositions, landscapes and still lifes.
