Franciszek Zmurko
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Poland
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...
painter. Zmurko began drawing lessons as a young boy in his hometown with the painter Franciszek Tepa. As an adolescent he moved to Krakow to study at the The Academy of Fine Arts where he had lessons from Jan Matejko. In 1877 Zmurko moved to Vienna, Austria where he was accepted at the Vienna Academy, but left soon thereafter to study under Aleksander Wagner in Munich. Zmurko returned to Krakow in 1880 and then moved to Warsaw in 1882 where he remained until his death in 1910.
Notable works
- Zygmunt August i Barbara
- Zuzanna i starcy, 1879
- Z rozkazu padyszacha, 1881
- Nubijczyk, 1884
- Portret kobiety z wachlarzem, 1884
- Widzenie Fausta, 1890
- Kazimierz Wielki i Esterka
- Portret kobiety z wachlarzem i papierosem, 1891
- Autoportret z paletą, 1895
- Portret młodej kobiety, 1896
- Studium do obrazu "Laudamus feminam", c. 1900
- Półakt kobiecy, c. 1900
- Una donna
- Czarne warkocze, 1907