List of Polish painters
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This is an alphabetical listing of Polish
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Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
painters. This list is incomplete. If a notable Polish painter is missing and without article, please add the name here.
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- Piotr AbraszewskiPiotr AbraszewskiPiotr Abraszewski was a Polish painter born in Zamość, Poland. From 1928 to 1934 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with Professor M. Kotarbinski, and in 1935 he became Assistant Professor at the Academy...
- Julia AckerJulia AckerJulia Acker was a Jewish-Polish figurative artist. Since many records from the World War II period and the German occupation of Poland are missing, the year of her birth in Lemberg and death in the Lviv Ghetto are listed in the "Exhibition Catalogue from the Collections of the Lviv Art Gallery,...
(1898–1942) - Tadeusz AjdukiewiczTadeusz AjdukiewiczTadeusz Ajdukiewicz was a Polish painter.-Biography:He was born in Wieliczka. From 1868 to 1873, he studied under Władysław Luszczkiewicz in the Fine art school of Krakow. Later, he travelled to Vienna and Munich, and studied in Józef Brandt's atelier. In 1877, Ajdukiewicz travelled to Paris and...
- Zygmunt AjdukiewiczZygmunt AjdukiewiczZygmunt Ajdukiewicz was a Polish painter of historical pictures. He was first cousin of Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz.-Biography:...
- Kazimierz AlchimowiczKazimierz AlchimowiczKazimierz Alchimowicz was a Lithuanian-born Polish romantic painter....
- Teodor AxentowiczTeodor AxentowiczTeodor Axentowicz was a Polish-Armenian painter and university professor. A renowned artist of his times, he was also the rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków...
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- Ladislaus Bakalowicz (1833–1903)
- Zdzisław Beksiński (1929–2005)
- Jan BetleyJan BetleyJan Betley was a Polish painter.Betley was born in Płock. Before the World War II, he was a student of two well known Polish painters, Tadeusz Pruszkowski and Felicjan Kowarski, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw . In 1936, he graduated under the advisory of Pruszkowski and qualified himself as...
(1908–1980) - Rahim BlakRahim BlakRahim Blak is a Macedonian contemporary artist in Kraków as well as a group of Polish artists who create work using the same pseudonym. Rahim is part of a group advocating the creation of the new Al-Fan Center of Islamic Culture that is planned to be built in Salwator...
- Krzysztof BoguszewskiKrzysztof BoguszewskiKrzysztof Boguszewski of Ostoja coat of arms, - Polish Baroque painter.He was son of August and raised in Chełmno County, by a family that was part of Clan of Ostoja. In early years Krzysztof master his skills in Gdańsk under the supervision of Herman Han. Then in 1623 he was appointed painter by...
- Olga BoznańskaOlga BoznanskaOlga Boznańska , was a Polish painter.Daughter of railway engineer Adam Nowina Boznański and Eugenia Mondan. Boznańska learned drawing from Józef Siedlecki and Kazimierz Pochwalski and studied at the Adrian Baraniecki School for Women. From 1886-1890 she studied in private schools of Karl...
- Józef BrandtJózef BrandtJózef Brandt was a Polish painter, best known for his paintings of battles.Brandt studied in Warsaw in the school of J.N. Leszczynski and at the Noblemen's Institute. In 1858 he left for Paris to study at the Ecole centrale Paris but was persuaded by Juliusz Kossak to abandon engineering in favor...
- Antoni BrodowskiAntoni BrodowskiAntoni Stanisław Brodowski was a Polish Neo-classicist painter and pedagogue. Brodowski was born in Warsaw but moved to Paris to study under Jean Augustin and Jacques-Louis David, later Brodowski's idol. He also became a pupil of Anne-Louis Girodet and Francois Gerard...
- Tadeusz BrzozowskiTadeusz Brzozowski (painter)-External links:*...
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- Józef Chełmoński (1849–1905)
- Stanisław Chlebowski
- Daniel ChodowieckiDaniel ChodowieckiDaniel Niklaus Chodowiecki was a Polish - German painter and printmaker with Huguenot ancestry, who is most famous as an etcher...
- Adam Chmielowski
- Leon ChwistekLeon ChwistekLeon Chwistek was a Polish avant-garde painter, theoretician of modern art, literary critic, logician, philosopher and mathematician.-Logic and philosophy:...
- Władysław Czachorski
- Marian CzaplaMarian CzaplaMarian Czapla is a Polish painter and graphic artist.Born on July 28, 1946 in Gacki near Szydłów, Czapla graduated from the School of Plastic Arts in Kielce...
- Józef CzapskiJózef CzapskiJózef Czapski was a Polish artist, author, and critic, as well as an officer of the Polish Army. As a painter, he is notable for his membership in the Kapist movement, which was heavily influenced by Cézanne...
- Szymon CzechowiczSzymon CzechowiczSzymon Czechowicz was a prominent Polish painter of the Baroque, considered one of the most accomplished painters of 18th century sacral painting in Poland. He specialized in sublime effigies of painted figures...
- Tytus CzyżewskiTytus CzyzewskiTytus Czyżewski was a Polish painter, art theoretician, Futurist poet, playwright, member of the Polish Formists, and Colorist.In 1902 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in the painting studios of Józef Mehoffer and Leon Wyczółkowski. Czyżewski travelled to Paris and learned from the...
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- Wojciech GersonWojciech GersonWojciech Gerson was a Polish painter and professor.Born in Warsaw, Gerson enrolled at the Warsaw Fine Arts Academy and graduated with honorable mention and a scholarship to St. Petersburg Academy of Arts where he studied historical painting under A. T. Markov. He graduated from St. Petersburg with...
- Stefan GierowskiStefan GierowskiStefan Gierowski is a Polish painter and one of the foremost avant garde artists of post-war Poland.For many years he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where he earned numerous distinctions. He abandoned representational and realist painting midway through the 1950s and devoted...
- Aleksander GierymskiAleksander GierymskiIgnacy Aleksander Gierymski was a Polish painter of the late 19th century. He was the younger brother of Maksymilian Gierymski, equally renowned Polish watercolour painter....
- Maksymilian GierymskiMaksymilian GierymskiMaksymilian Gierymski was a Polish painter, specializing mainly in watercolours. He was the older brother of painter Aleksander Gierymski.As a seventeen-years-old boy, he participated in the January Uprising...
- Krzysztof GliszczyńskiKrzysztof GliszczynskiKrzysztof Gliszczyński is a Polish painter from Sopot.-Biography:Gliszczyński attended State Grammar School for Visual Arts in Szczecin from 1977-82. He studied at the State College for Visual Arts in Gdańsk, the Faculty of Painting and Prints, the graduate studio of Professor Kazimierz Ostrowski...
(1962) - Henryk GotlibHenryk GotlibHenryk Gotlib , was a Polish-born painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and writer, who settled in England and made a significant contribution to modern British art. He was profoundly influenced by Rembrandt, and the European Expressionist painters.“There was never any doubt of Gotlib’s stature in the...
(1890–1966) - Maurycy GottliebMaurycy GottliebMaurycy Gottlieb was a Jewish painter, of Polish-speaking Galician Jews from the western part of Ukraine. He was born in Drohobych , Galicia, modern Lviv region, western Ukraine....
- Artur GrottgerArtur GrottgerArtur Grottger – 1867) was a Polish painter and graphic designer, one of the most prominent artists of the early 19th century despite his brief life.-Biography:...
(1837–1867)
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- Rajmund KanelbaRajmund KanelbaRaymond Kanelba also Rajmund Kanelba was a 20th century Polish painter.He was born in Warsaw and educated there as well as in Vienna and Paris. He was strongly influenced by the école de Paris but with rather realistic and anti-impressionist style...
(1897–1960) - Tadeusz KantorTadeusz KantorTadeusz Kantor was a Polish painter, assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director. Kantor is renowned for his revolutionary theatrical performances in Poland and abroad.- Life and career :...
(1915–1990) - Stanisława de Karłowska (1876–1952)
- Alfons KarpińskiAlfons KarpinskiAlfons Karpiński was a Polish painter specializing in portraits of women, still-life and foreign landscape of Italy and France. Karpiński studied painting in Kraków at the School of Fine Arts under Leon Wyczółkowski between and after 1903 at the Munich Academy under Anton Ažbe, until 1907...
(1875–1961) - Mojżesz KislingMoise KislingMoise Kisling was a Polish painter.Born in Kraków, Austria-Hungary, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he was encouraged to travel to the center for artistic creativity in the early 20th century, Paris, France.In 1910, Kisling moved to Montmartre and a few years later to...
(1891–1953) - Marcin KoberMarcin KoberMartin Kober . Was a court painter to: King Stefan Batory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor and to Sigismund III Vasa ruler of Poland, Lithuania and Sweden.- External links :...
- Jerzy KossakJerzy KossakJerzy Kossak was a Polish realist painter specializing in military scenes; son of painter Wojciech Kossak and grandson of painter Juliusz Kossak — a third-generation artist from a well-known and sought after family of painters, writers and poets.Jerzy Kossak was a prolific painter of mostly...
- Juliusz KossakJuliusz KossakJuliusz Fortunat Kossak was a Polish historical painter and master illustrator who specialized in battle scenes, military portraits and horses...
- Wojciech KossakWojciech KossakWojciech Kossak was a Polish painter and member of the celebrated Kossak family of painters and writers...
(ur. 1857) - Franciszek KostrzewskiFranciszek KostrzewskiFranciszek Kostrzewski was a Polish painter, illustrator and caricaturist.He was born in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire. Among his works are paintings illustrating the epic poem Pan Tadeusz. He died in Warsaw....
- Aleksander KotsisAleksander KotsisAleksander Kotsis - born 1836 in Ludwinów , died 1877 in Podgórze - was a Polish painter renowned for his landscapes, portraits and genre depictions of contemporary rustic scenes....
- Felicjan KowarskiFelicjan KowarskiFelicjan Szczesny Kowarski was a Polish painter and sculptor, known mostly from his monumental wall paintings and plafonds .-External links:*...
- Andre de KrayewskiAndre de KrayewskiAndre de Krayewski is an artist and Polish expatriate currently residing in Newark, NJ. With a career that spans more than half a century, he continues to masterfully create paintings in his art-deco signature style and in pop art style. Andre de Krayewski is best known in his former country, for...
- Nikifor Krynicki, folkFolk artFolk art encompasses art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople. In contrast to fine art, folk art is primarily utilitarian and decorative rather than purely aesthetic....
and naïveNaïve artNaïve art is a classification of art that is often characterized by a childlike simplicity in its subject matter and technique. While many naïve artists appear, from their works, to have little or no formal art training, this is often not true...
painter - Konrad KrzyżanowskiKonrad KrzyzanowskiKonrad Krzyżanowski was a Polish painter of powerful expressionist landscapes and vivid portraits, born in Kremenchuk in Ukraine. His art studies began in Kiev and were continued in St. Petersburg and Munich. In Warsaw he was a professor at the School of Fine Arts. He took his students for summer...
- Alexander KucharskyAlexander KucharskyAlexander Kucharsky also Alexandre Kucharsky, was a Polish portrait painter who spent his adult life in France. He himself used the spelling Kucharsky, but Kucharski is also often used. In the past, in France, the name has been given as Couaski.-Early life:Kucharsky was born in Warsaw...
(1741–1819) - Jarosław Kukowski
- Teofil KwiatkowskiTeofil KwiatkowskiTeofil Antoni Jaksa Kwiatkowski was a Polish painter.-Life:Kwiatkowski participated in the November 1830 Uprising...
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- Tadeusz MakowskiTadeusz MakowskiTadeusz Makowski was a prominent Polish painter active in France for most of his life. He was born in Oświęcim. Makowski attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He studied under Jan Stanisławski and Józef Mehoffer. In 1909, he departed for Paris. Makowski started off as a landscape painter...
- Jacek MalczewskiJacek MalczewskiJacek Malczewski was one of the most famous painters of Polish Symbolism. In his creativity he successfully joins the predominant style of his times with motifs of Polish martyrdom.-See also:...
- Władysław Malecki
- Louis MarcoussisLouis MarcoussisLouis Marcoussis, formerly Ludwik Kazimierz Wladyslaw Markus or Ludwig Casimir Ladislas Markus, was a painter and engraver of Polish origin who lived in Paris for much of his life and became a French citizen.After studying law briefly in Warsaw he went to the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, where his...
- Adam MarczyńskiAdam MarczynskiAdam Marczyński was a Polish painter. He died in Kraków.Marczyński came into his own as an artist of post-war Kraków....
- Stanisław Masłowski
- Jan MatejkoJan MatejkoJan Matejko was a Polish painter known for paintings of notable historical Polish political and military events. His most famous works include oil on canvas paintings like Battle of Grunwald, paintings of numerous other battles and court scenes, and a gallery of Polish kings...
- Józef MehofferJózef MehofferJózef Mehoffer was a Polish painter and decorative artist, one of the leading artists of the Young Poland movement and one of the most revered Polish artists of his time.-Life:...
- Piotr Michałowski
- Augustyn MirysAugustyn MirysAugustyn Mirys was a Polish painter.-External links:...
- Eugeniusz MolskiEugeniusz MolskiEugeniusz Molski born in 1942 in Bagienice . Attended a State Fine Arts College in Nałęczów and a State Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław where he obtained his diploma in 1969. He specializes in architectural painting and ceramics. Since 1969 he has been employed at the Fine Arts College in Nowy...
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- Eligiusz NiewiadomskiEligiusz NiewiadomskiEligiusz Niewiadomski was a Polish modernist painter and art critic who belonged to the right-wing National Democratic Party till 1904 and later continued supporting it. In 1922 he assassinated Poland's first President, Gabriel Narutowicz.-Life:Niewiadomski was born into a family of gentry descent...
- Jan Piotr NorblinJan Piotr NorblinJean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine was a French-born painter, draughtsman, engraver, drawing artist and caricaturist. From 1774 to 1804 he resided in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, where he obtained citizenship.He is considered one of the most important painters of the Polish Enlightenment...
- Zbigniew NowosadzkiZbigniew NowosadzkiZbigniew Nowosadzki is a prominent Polish painter.He was trained at the Secondary Art School in Zamość and Institute of Artistic Education at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, graduating in 1983. Between 1987 and 1992 he was managing ‘Żar’ Gallery at the primary school in Warsaw...
- Jerzy NowosielskiJerzy NowosielskiJerzy Nowosielski was a Kraków-born Polish painter, graphic artist, scenographer, and illustrator.He was well-known for his religious compositions in the Orthodox Churches in Kraków, Białystok and Jelenia Góra, the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Cross at Wesoła, the Franciscan Church in the...
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- Józef PankiewiczJózef PankiewiczJózef Pankiewicz was a Polish painter, graphic artist, and pedagogue.Pankiewicz was born at Lublin. He studied under Wojciech Gerson and Alexander Kamiński. He travelled to Saint Petersburg with Władysław Podkowiński after winning a scholarship to the Imperial Academy of Arts there...
- Władysław Podkowiński
- Emil PolitEmil PolitEmil Polit is a popular Polish artist best known for his landscapes, portraits, allegorical and mystical paintings as well as a number of religious art pieces and frescos in a number of Polish churches including the Rzeszów Cathedral. He contributes to and works with a number of charitable...
- Tadeusz PruszkówskiTadeusz PruszkowskiTadeusz Pruszkowski was a Polish painter and educator, and from 1922 a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He was the initiator of numerous student and painter associations, such as the Warsaw School and the Fourth Group...
- Witold PruszkówskiWitold PruszkowskiWitold Pruszkowski was a Polish painter and draughtsman.Pruszkowski lived his youth in Odessa and Kiev. He later went to Paris where he served an apprenticeship under the renowned portrait painter Tadeusz Gorecki. He continued his studies in Munich and then Kraków under Jan Matejko...
- Stanislaw PrzespolewskiStanislaw PrzespolewskiStanisław Kajetan Przespolewski was a Polish painter. Originally based in Poland, he moved to Scotland during the Second World War, and later worked in England and The Netherlands. He became known for his large series of pencil portraits of Polish soldiers in the Second World War...
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- Stanisław Samostrzelnik
- Wilhelm SasnalWilhelm SasnalWilhelm Sasnal is a Polish painter. Sasnal received his diploma of painting in 1999 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.-Early life and career:Wilhelm Sasnal was born in Tarnów, Poland, in 1972...
- Bruno SchulzBruno SchulzBruno Schulz was a Polish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher born to Jewish parents, and regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. Schulz was born in Drohobycz, in the province of Galicia then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and spent...
(1892–1942) - Henryk SiemiradzkiHenryk SiemiradzkiHenryk Siemiradzki was a Polish 19th century painter active in the period of foreign Partitions of Poland, and best remembered for his monumental Academic art...
- Józef SimmlerJózef SimmlerJózef Simmler was a Polish painter known for his classical style and his Polish subjects.Perhaps his most famous work is "Death of Barbara Radziwillowna" , an oil on canvas work completed in 1860...
- Wojciech SiudmakWojciech SiudmakWojciech Kazimierz "Wojtek" Siudmak is a Polish painter, currently living in France. His works are often used as illustrations for science fiction and fantasy literature, including the Polish edition of Frank Herbert's Dune series.The French publisher Presses-Pocket used his artwork on the covers...
(born 1942) - Władysław Ślewiński
- Franciszek SmuglewiczFranciszek SmuglewiczFranciszek Smuglewicz or Pranciškus Smuglevičius, October 6, 1745 – September 18, 1807) was a Polish-Lithuanian draughtsman and painter. Smuglewicz is considered a progenitor of Lithuanian art in the modern era. Some consider him as a spiritual father of Jan Matejko's school of painting....
- Kajetan SosnowskiKajetan Sosnowski-External links:*...
- Jan Stanisławski
- Jan Byk Franciszek Starowieyski
- Ludwik StasiakLudwik StasiakLudwik Stasiak , was a Polish painter, illustrator, writer, journalist, essayist and publisher....
- Henryk StażewskiHenryk StazewskiHenryk Stażewski was a Polish painter, considered to be a pioneer of the classical avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. He was a foremost representative of the Constructivist movement, as well as the co-creator of the Geometric Abstract art movement....
, (born 1894) - Józef StolorzJózef StolorzJózef Stolorz is a fine art painter, born 31 October 1950 in Katowice, Silesia, Poland.-Life and work:...
- Władysław Strzemiński
- Jan StykaJan StykaJan Styka was an ethnic Polish-born painter noted for producing large historical and Christian religion panoramas....
- January SuchodolskiJanuary SuchodolskiJanuary Suchodolski was a Polish painter and Army officer.-Life:Suchodolski was born in Grodno and was the brother of Rajnold Suchodolski....
- Stanislav Szukalski
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- Zygmunt WaliszewskiZygmunt WaliszewskiZygmunt Waliszewski was a Polish painter, a member of the Kapist movement.-Biography:Waliszewski was born in Saint Petersburg to the Polish family of an engineer. In 1907 his parents moved to Tbilisi where Waliszewski spent his childhood. In Tbilisi began his studies at a prestigious art school...
- Walenty WańkowiczWalenty WankowiczWalenty Wańkowicz was a Polish painter.He studied at the Polatsk Jesuit College, the University of Vilno and the St Petersburg Academy of Arts....
- Ryszard WaskoRyszard WaskoRyszard Wasko is a Polish artist, who has worked in multimedia, including photography, film, video, installation, painting, and drawing. He is also known as a curator and organizer of art events.He lives and works in Berlin....
(Waśko) - Wojciech WeissWojciech WeissWojciech Weiss was a prominent Polish painter and draughtsman of the Young Poland movement.Weiss was born in Bukovina to a Polish family in exile of Stanisław Weiss and Maria Kopaczyńska. He gave up music training to study art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Leon Wyczółkowski...
- Stanisław Witkiewicz (1851–1915)
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz a.k.a. "Witkacy" (1885–1939)
- Witold WojtkiewiczWitold WojtkiewiczWitold Wojtkiewicz was a Polish neoromantic painter. He started his education at the Warsaw School of Drawing in 1898 and continued at the Academy in Kraków. His original and inventive work anticipated Polish Expressionism. Wojtkiewicz often employed grotesque motifs and irony in his work...
- Andrzej WróblewskiAndrzej WróblewskiAndrzej Wróblewski was a Polish painter who died in a mountaineering accident in 1957 when he was only 29. He is recognized by many as one of Poland's most prominent artists in the early post World War II era, creating an individualistic approach to figurative painting.-Early life:Wróblewski was...
- Leon Wyczółkowski
- Stanisław Wyspiański (1869–1907)
See also
- List of famous Poles
- List of painters
- List of Polish graphic designers
- List of Polish sculptors
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