Dimensions: 55 x 48 cm
Signed at the bottom: 'Fra. Żmurko'
Origins
collection of Grazyna Kulczyk
Exhibited
GK Collection #1. the art collection of Grazyna Kulczyk, Stary Browar, Poznan, March 18 - June 17, 2007.
Literature
GK Collection #1. the art collection of Grazyna Kulczyk, exhibition catalog, ed. Paweł Leszkowicz, Stary Browar in Poznań, Poznań 2007, p. 56 (il.)
Biogram
Franciszek Żmurko began studying drawing and painting with Franciszek Tepa in Lviv, and continued in 1874- 81 with Jan Matejko at the School of Fine Arts in Krakow, as well as in Vienna, Rome and at the Munich Academy with A. Wagner (1878- 80). After his studies, until 1882, he lived in Cracow, later settling in Warsaw. He traveled a lot - he visited France, Germany, Holland, St. Petersburg. The artist's works were highly regarded by critics and the public; he took part in numerous exhibitions at home (in Warsaw, Krakow, Lviv, Vilnius, Zhytomyr) and abroad, including France, Germany, Holland, England, as well as Chicago and San Francisco. He painted academic compositions of ancient, allegorical and symbolic, and sometimes historical and religious themes, as well as portraits.
