Artist

Leon Wyczółkowski

Portrait of Leon Wyczółkowski
Portrait of Leon Wyczółkowski

Polish, 1852–1936

Leon Wyczółkowski was a Polish Impressionism artist. 43 works are cataloged here, principally at National Museum in Kraków. Leon Wyczółkowski was born in Wola Miastkowska.

Leon Jan Wyczółkowski (Polish:; 11 April 1852 – 27 December 1936) was a Polish painter and educator who was one of the leading painters of the Young Poland movement, as well as the principal representative of Polish Realism in art of the Interbellum. From 1895 to 1911 he served as professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, and from 1934, at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He was a founding member of the Society of Polish Artists "Sztuka" (Art, 1897).

Collections represented

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