Eugeniusz Zak - Artist Info

About Eugeniusz Zak

Name variants

Eugène Zak, Eugene Zak
  • Biography

    Eugeniusz Zak also known as Eugène Zak and Eugene Zak, was a Polish artist. He was born to a family of Jews in Mogilno, Minsk Governorate (nowadays Belarus). As a boy he moved to Warsaw, where he graduated from a non-classical secondary school. In 1902, he left for Paris to undertake studies, first at the École des Beaux-Arts* in the studio of the aged master of academism Jean-Léon Gérôme, and then at Académie Colarossi* in the studio of Albert Besnard.

    In 1903, he traveled to Italy and toward the end of the year to Munich, where he entered a private school run by the Slovenian Anton Ažbe.

    In 1904 he returned to Paris. In the same year his debut took place at the Autumn Salon and two years later he was accepted as a jury memb...

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