Background
Eugeniusz Zak was born on December 15, 1884 in Mogilno, Minsk Governorate (present-day Mogilno, Belarus).
Eugeniusz Zak was born on December 15, 1884 in Mogilno, Minsk Governorate (present-day Mogilno, Belarus).
Zak began his formal artistic education in 1902 at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris under the guidance of Jean-Léon Gérôme. He continued his studies at the Académie Colarossi at the atelier of A. Besnard.
In 1903, the artist moved to Italy and some time later to Munich, where he entered a private school, run by the Slovenian Anton Ažbe.
In 1904, Eugeniusz Zak moved to Paris and made his debut at the Autumn Salon the same year. Two years later, the artist was appointed a jury member in the drawing section of this institution.
During the period from 1906 to 1908, he made trips to Brittany (a cultural region in the northwest of France). Zak befriended many Polish artists there, including Roman Kramsztyk, Waclaw Borowski, Leopold Gottlieb, Jerzy Merkel, Elie Nadelman, Mela Muter, Tytus Czyżewski and Zygmunt Menkes.
In 1911, the artist's first solo exhibition was held at Galerie Druet. The following year, in 1912, he was appointed a professor at the Académie de la Palette.
Between 1914-1916, Zak lived in Nice and Vence (France). In 1916, he settled down with his wife, Jadwiga Kohn, in Częstochowa, where he joined the circle of future Formists.
In 1921, the artist moved to Berlin, then to Bonn and Cologne. In Germany, Zak worked for a magazine "Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration".
In 1923, he settled once again in Paris, where he joined his friends Zygmunt Menkes and Marc Chagall.
During his lifetime, the artist took part in numerous exhibitions, including Armory Show in New York, Chicago and Boston, the Venice Biennale in 1914 and the Parisian exhibitions of the Association France-Pologne in Paris in 1924.
Idyll
Girl in a Pink Shawl
Landscape with a Palace
Drinking
Shepherd
Fisherman
Gypsy with a Guitar
Head of a woman
Bathing (Pastoral)
Girl in Profile
Head of a Woman
Woman with a Rabbit
Head of a Young Man in a Pointed Hat
Young Smoking a Pipe
Landscape with Seafarers
Fisherman
Sielanka
Krajobraz z wędrowcem
Portrait of a Young Woman in a Hat (Jadwiga Zak)
Self-Portrait
Zak Pierrot
Zak was a member of Society of Polish Artists in Paris.
Zak married Jadwiga Kohn, a painter, in 1913.
