Apolinary Kotowicz

Background

His father, Antoni Kotowicz (1816-1885) was a doctor and naturalist from LwóWest

Education

Through 1887, he studied at the Academy of Fine arts with January Matejko (history painting) and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz (drawing and anatomy). After graduating, he spent two years in Munich on a scholarship, where he studied at a private school operated by Simon Hollósy, who took him on field trips to the Hungarian countryside.

Career

He was also a set decorator and amateur photographer. He began his education in TarnóWest In 1878, he moved to Krakow, where he spent most of his adult life.

From 1894 to 1895, he was one of the artists who participated in creating the Panorama Tatr, a view of the Tatra Mountains that measured 115 meters (337 ft) by 16 meters (52 ft), making it the largest Polish panorama and the only one to feature a landscape rather than historical scenes.

lieutenant was on display in Warsaw for three years (1896-1899), when the promoters went bankrupt and it was sold to January Styka, a panorama painter. lieutenant disappeared during World War I.

From 1898 to 1903, he was the decorator at the Krakow Municipal Theater.

He also designed playbills and posters and illustrated the first edition of Tamten, a play by Gabriela Zapolska. In 1904, he returned to his native countryside, settled in Jasło, and taught drawing at the local gymnasium, where he painted a "Vision of Saint Francis" for the school chapel.

He was also involved in the cataloguing and preservation of local monuments.

Following the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive, he painted scenes of the destruction in the vicinity of Jasło. He died during the German Occupation.

Connections

associate:

Włodzimierz Tetmajer