Antoni Szulczynski, PORTRET OF A MAN, 1890s.

65,3 x 39,3cm - oil, canvas signed l.d.: M. A. Szulczyński



Far-reaching realism, combined with a deepened psychology of the model, as well as subdued colors with a predominance of browns and grays - betray the hand of the graduate of the Munich Academy. Few of Szulczynski's works have survived, while the offered painting is the earliest known today. It shows the scale of the talent of the prematurely deceased artist, who in his later period took up mainly portrait and religious painting.

Antoni Szulczynski (Wilczogóra 1877 - Wilczyn 1922) - painter. He was born into the family of a wealthy miller. He studied at the Cracow School of Fine Arts, graduating in 1902. After his studies he traveled, gaining further education in Vienna, Rome, Munich and Vilnius. After completing his art education, he settled in his hometown of Wilczyna. He mainly created polychromes and paintings for the decoration of churches - St. Catherine in Miedźno, Our Lady of Sorrows in Skulsk, St. Stanislaus the Bishop in Kramsk, St. Ursula in Wilczyna, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Łubnice, as well as in Broniszew and Złotkowo.