Apoloniusz Kedzierski was educated under the guidance of two outstanding artists of his era. It seems that he took over from Józef Brandt only technical perfection, because he never took the full effort to study the complicated silhouette of the horse, which appears in his oeuvre only at the very beginning. He gained much more from contacts with Wojciech Gerson.

It was probably to him that he owed his inspiration with folk and folklore, colorful costumes and simple life of peasants. “Following the development of Kedzierski's work, we see that despite formal and technical changes, the artist was consistent in choosing a certain genre of painting. At the beginning of his creative path, he chose genre and landscape painting and re...