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François Zmurko BIOGRAPHY
1859 Lviv, Ukraine - 1910 Warsaw, Poland. Known for: Female portrait, water scene painting, abstract figure drawing, heads, nudes.
Franciszek Zmurko 1859 Lviv - 1910 Warsaw . He began drawing and painting in Lviv, then he studied with Jan Matejko at the Krakow School of Fine Arts and in Vienna, Rome, and from 1876 to 1880 at the... Read full biography
Franciszek Zmurko 1859 Lviv - 1910 Warsaw . He began drawing and painting in Lviv, then he studied with Jan Matejko at the Krakow School of Fine Arts and in Vienna, Rome, and from 1876 to 1880 at the Munich Academy, incl. under the direction of Alexander Wagner. A participant of many exhibitions... Read full biography
Franciszek Zmurko 1859 Lviv - 1910 Warsaw . He began drawing and painting in Lviv, then he studied with Jan Matejko at the Krakow School of Fine Arts and in Vienna, Rome, and from 1876 to 1880 at the Munich Academy, incl. under the direction of Alexander Wagner. A participant of many exhibitions awarded with medals (including the gold medal for the painting Cleopatra 1879), he was recognized by critics and popular with the public. He was a member of the Munich Kunstverein. He painted mostly... Read full biography
Franciszek Zmurko 1859 Lviv - 1910 Warsaw . He began drawing and painting in Lviv, then he studied with Jan Matejko at the Krakow School of Fine Arts and in Vienna, Rome, and from 1876 to 1880 at the Munich Academy, incl. under the direction of Alexander Wagner. A participant of many exhibitions awarded with medals (including the gold medal for the painting Cleopatra 1879), he was recognized by critics and popular with the public. He was a member of the Munich Kunstverein. He painted mostly academic-style compositions on ancient, historical, oriental or symbolic themes, in which the anecdotal layer provided an opportunity to present female nudes. He was also a portraitist, author of numerous, very popular "heads" and nudes. In the offered... Read full biography
Franciszek Zmurko 1859 Lviv - 1910 Warsaw . He began drawing and painting in Lviv, then he studied with Jan Matejko at the Krakow School of Fine Arts and in Vienna, Rome, and from 1876 to 1880 at the Munich Academy, incl. under the direction of Alexander Wagner. A participant of many exhibitions awarded with medals (including the gold medal for the painting Cleopatra 1879), he was recognized by critics and popular with the public. He was a member of the Munich Kunstverein. He painted mostly academic-style compositions on ancient, historical, oriental or symbolic themes, in which the anecdotal layer provided an opportunity to present female nudes. He was also a portraitist, author of numerous, very popular "heads" and nudes. In the offered work, he was inspired by the painting Venetian Serenade by Wilhelm Kotarbinski from 1881.
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Franciszek Zmurko 1859 Lviv - 1910 Warsaw
He began drawing and painting in Lviv, then he studied with Jan Matejko at the Krakow School of Fine Arts and in Vienna, Rome, and from 1876 to 1880 at the Munich Academy, incl. under the direction of Alexander Wagner.
A participant of many exhibitions awarded with medals (including the gold medal for the painting Cleopatra 1879), he was recognized by critics and popular with the public.
He was a member of the Munich Kunstverein. He painted mostly academic-style compositions on ancient, historical, oriental or symbolic themes, in which the anecdotal layer provided an opportunity to present female nudes.
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