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1859 Brasov, Romania - 1938 Krakow, Poland. Known for: Symbolist-inflected portraiture and genre scenes, often rendered in oil and pastel.
Teodor Axentowicz (Armenian: ?????? ??????????; May 13, 1859 in Bra?ov, Austrian Empire – August 26, 1938 in Kraków, Second Polish Republic) was a Polish-Armenian painter and university professor. A... Read full biography
Teodor Axentowicz (Armenian: ?????? ??????????; May 13, 1859 in Bra?ov, Austrian Empire – August 26, 1938 in Kraków, Second Polish Republic) was a Polish-Armenian painter and university professor. A renowned artist of his times, he was also the rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. As an... Read full biography
Teodor Axentowicz (Armenian: ?????? ??????????; May 13, 1859 in Bra?ov, Austrian Empire – August 26, 1938 in Kraków, Second Polish Republic) was a Polish-Armenian painter and university professor. A renowned artist of his times, he was also the rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. As an artist, Axentowicz was famous for his portraits and subtle scenes of Hutsul life, set in the Carpathians. Axentowicz was born May 13, 1859 in Bra?ov, Hungary (now Romania), to a family of... Read full biography
Teodor Axentowicz (Armenian: ?????? ??????????; May 13, 1859 in Bra?ov, Austrian Empire – August 26, 1938 in Kraków, Second Polish Republic) was a Polish-Armenian painter and university professor. A renowned artist of his times, he was also the rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. As an artist, Axentowicz was famous for his portraits and subtle scenes of Hutsul life, set in the Carpathians. Axentowicz was born May 13, 1859 in Bra?ov, Hungary (now Romania), to a family of Polish-Armenian ancestry. In 1893 in Chelsea, London, he married Iza Henrietta Gielgud, aunt of Val Gielgud and John Gielgud of the theatrical dynasty. A son, Philip S.A.D. Axentowicz, was born in Chelsea in 1893. Between 1879 and 1882 he studied at the Academy of... Read full biography
Teodor Axentowicz (Armenian: ?????? ??????????; May 13, 1859 in Bra?ov, Austrian Empire – August 26, 1938 in Kraków, Second Polish Republic) was a Polish-Armenian painter and university professor. A renowned artist of his times, he was also the rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. As an artist, Axentowicz was famous for his portraits and subtle scenes of Hutsul life, set in the Carpathians. Axentowicz was born May 13, 1859 in Bra?ov, Hungary (now Romania), to a family of Polish-Armenian ancestry. In 1893 in Chelsea, London, he married Iza Henrietta Gielgud, aunt of Val Gielgud and John Gielgud of the theatrical dynasty. A son, Philip S.A.D. Axentowicz, was born in Chelsea in 1893. Between 1879 and 1882 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. From there he moved to Paris, where he was a student of Carolus-Duran and continued his education until 1895. Durin... Read full biography
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Teodor Axentowicz (Armenian: ?????? ??????????; May 13, 1859 in Bra?ov, Austrian Empire – August 26, 1938 in Kraków, Second Polish Republic) was a Polish-Armenian painter and university professor. A renowned artist of his times, he was also the rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. As an artist, Axentowicz was famous for his portraits and subtle scenes of Hutsul life, set in the Carpathians.
Axentowicz was born May 13, 1859 in Bra?ov, Hungary (now Romania), to a family of Polish-Armenian ancestry. In 1893 in Chelsea, London, he married Iza Henrietta Gielgud, aunt of Val Gielgud and John Gielgud of the theatrical dynasty. A son, Philip S.A.D. Axentowicz, was born in Chelsea in 1893.
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