Czeslaw Wasilewski - Artist Info

About Czeslaw Wasilewski

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Franciszek Zygmuntowicz, Ignacy Zygmuntowicz
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    Czeslaw Wasilewski lived and worked in Warsaw. He taught himself the art of painting. In 1911, he reportedly enrolled at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts. It is believed he was a student of Wojciech Kossak. Critics justified these assumptions by pointing out that in the early 1920s, Zygmuntowicz prepared so-called underpaintings for Kossak and, moreover, drew on the master's painting style in his works.

    After 1930, Czeslaw Wasilewski began signing his works "Zygmuntowicz ." Although his paintings drew on the work of artists such as Józef Brandt, Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski, and Józef Chelmonski , Zygmuntowicz's works are characterized by their creative ...

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