Description
Watercolor, paper; 20 x 30 cm
Signed p.d.: JK. Olpiński 1936
Asking price 1200
Estimate 1800 - 2000
Auction 209, 29.01.2022
Jan Kazimierz OLPIŃSKI
1875 Lviv - 1936 Lviv
After graduating from gymnasium in Lviv, he studied in Munich with Karl Raupp and Karl Marr from 1893-97. He received two awards for his painting studies and a scholarship from the Franz Joseph Foundation for 1896 - 99. He continued his studies in Paris, where from 1897 - 1900 he studied at the Academie des Beaux - Arts with Rene X. Prinet, James Whistler and Raphael Collin. In 1898, he was awarded a medal at the Academie Colarossi. From 1899 to 1901 he traveled to Italy and was also in Courland. In 1900 he moved to Vienna, where he studied with Kazimierz Pochwalski until 1905. From 1921 he lived permanently in Lviv, where he worked at the State Industrial School and the Lviv Polytechnic. He participated in exhibitions in Krakow, Lviv, Warsaw and Poznan. He painted genre scenes, landscapes and still lifes, as well as nudes.
