Władysław Podkowiński

Poland · 1866–1895

Władysław Podkowiński (Polish:; 4 February 1866, 5 January 1895) was a Polish master painter and illustrator associated with the Young Poland movement during the Partition period. == Career == Podkowiński was born in Warsaw and began his artistic training at Wojciech Gerson's drawing school, he then transferred to the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts where he studied between 1880 and 1884. After graduating, Podkowinski began to contribute to many of the leading art journals in Warsaw at the time. In 1885, he travelled, along with Józef Pankiewicz, to the Imperial Academy of Arts where he studied from 1885 to 1886. Returning from St. Petersburg in 1886, Podkowiński obtained a position of an illustrator for the Tygodnik Ilustrowany magazine where he became one its most renowned artists. His first watercolor and oil paintings were produced during this time, but Podkowiński still considered them personal, not a public endeavor.

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