Stanisław Kaczor-Batowski
Illustration — Kaczor-Batowski in 1930 Stanisław Kaczor-Batowski (29 January 1866 – 5/12 May 1946) was a Polish painter who specialised in realist and romanticist works. Stanisław Kaczor-Batowski was born in Lwów (then Lemberg in Austro-Hungarian Galicia, now Lviv, Ukraine), in 1885 he graduated from the Kraków-based Academy of Fine Arts. A student of Florian Cynk and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, he moved to Vienna and then Munich, where he studied under the tutelage of Alexander von Liezen-Mayer between 1887 and 1889.
Stanisław Kaczor-Batowski
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- Born
- 1866 · Lviv.
- Died
- 1946 · Lviv.
- Nationality
- Cisleithania · Second Polish Republic · Soviet Union
- Occupation
- painter · art educator · artist
- Fields
- landscape · portrait
- Education
- Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow · Academy of Fine Arts and Munich
- Teachers
- Władysław Łuszczkiewicz · Florian Cynk
- Honours
- Gold Cross of Merit
- Languages
- Polish
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Illustration — Kaczor-Batowski in 1930 Stanisław Kaczor-Batowski (29 January 1866 – 5/12 May 1946) was a Polish painter who specialised in realist and romanticist works. Stanisław Kaczor-Batowski was born in Lwów (then Lemberg in Austro-Hungarian Galicia, now Lviv, Ukraine), in 1885 he graduated from the Kraków-based Academy of Fine Arts. A student of Florian Cynk and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, he moved to Vienna and then Munich, where he studied under the tutelage of Alexander von Liezen-Mayer between 1887 and 1889.
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He also spent a brief time in Paris and Rome before returning to his natal Lwów, where he spent the rest of his life. From 1903 to 1914 he ran his own painting school in Lviv. A fan of Henryk Sienkiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki and Jan Matejko, Kaczor-Batowski specialized in historicist paintings, usually related to Poland's martial history. Among the best known of his works is the Polish Thermopylae (Battle of Zadwórze) and Pułaski at Savannah. The last painting is currently owned and permanently displayed at The Polish Museum in Chicago. He is also notable as the designer of the stuccos and frescoes for the Grand Theatre in Lwów (modern Theatre of Lviv). In addition to painted landscapes, portraits and religious paintings, Batowski made a series of illustrations for The Trilogy by Henryk Sienkiewicz.
Stanisław Kaczor-Batowski studied at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Training under Władysław Łuszczkiewicz and Florian Cynk is recorded. Luna Drexlerówna, Marcin Kitz and Iryna Shukhevych are recorded as having studied under Stanisław Kaczor-Batowski. The recorded working language is Polish. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape and portrait. Work by Stanisław Kaczor-Batowski is recorded in the collections of National Museum in Warsaw and National Museum in Kraków. Distinctions recorded are Gold Cross of Merit.
• Illustration — Saint Cecilia • Illustration — Altar of the Virgin Mary • Illustration — Saint Anthony of Padua • Illustration — A view of Lwów • Illustration — The hussar charge • Illustration — Defence of Zadwórze from the Bolsheviks
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