Florian Cynk

Florian Cynk studied at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Training under Wojciech Stattler and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz is recorded. Wojciech Weiss is recorded as having studied under Florian Cynk. The recorded working language is Polish. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Work by Florian Cynk is recorded in the collections of National Museum in Warsaw and National Museum in Kraków.

He was born in Kraków and began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków with Wojciech Stattler and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz. Later, he attended the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (1862-1863) and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (1863-1867). In 1877, he was appointed a professor of drawing at his alma mater, the Kraków Academy. While there, he made copies of works by Jan Matejko that would be turned into woodcuts, and he helped Matejko plot the perspective on his huge paintings. He also provided illustrations for Tygodnik Illustrowany and other periodicals. In 1886, he was elected President of the Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts. In 1888, he painted "Our Lady of the Polish Crown" for the altar of a church in Stryj and, together with Matejko, created portraits of Saints Kinga and Adalbert at a church in Stary Wiśnicz. Many of his students would become well-known artists; including Stanisław Wyspiański, Piotr Stachiewicz, Jan Wojnarski, Ludwik Stasiak, Artur Markowicz, Wojciech Weiss, Ludwik Misky, Józef Rapacki, Stefan Filipkiewicz, Władysław Benda and Zefiryn Ćwikliński. Cynk died in Kraków on 10 October 1912.

Florian Cynk is recorded as painter and draftsperson.