Zefiryn Alojzy (Zefir) Cwiklinski - Artist Info

About Zefiryn Alojzy (Zefir) Cwiklinski

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Ceferino Cwiklinskiej
  • Biography

    Zefiryn (Zefir) Alojzy Cwiklinski Ceferino (February 6, 1871 in Lviv – July 24, 1930 in Zakopane) - Polish painter, known primarily for painting in the Tatra mountains.

    He graduated from high school in Lviv, then for a year, he studied philosophy at the University of Lviv, and later, after moving to Kraków - in the years 1887-1889 - studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts where he was the student of Florian Cynk, Wladyslaw Luszczkiewicz, Feliks Szynalewski and Izydor Jablonski. In 1893, he received a scholarship and continued his studies at the Vienna Academy with a historical painter and portraitist Christian Griepenkerl.

    He specialised in historic paintings, portraits and those of different genres. With the lack of ...

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