Background
He was born to a noble family.
He was born to a noble family.
In 1888, he began his artistic studies at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint St. Petersburg under Bogdan Willewalde. This was followed by enrollment at the Académie Julian in Paris. He specialized in genre scenes and landscapes from the villages and rural areas around Vilnius and held frequent exhibitions at the "Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych" (Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts) and the salon of the noted art collector Aleksander Krywult, both in Warsaw, where he lived for several years after 1900.
He also lived in Poznan.
His sketches and pen drawings were gathered together in a large album in 1912 and published by B. Wierzbicki & Company He was also a popular portraitist and his drawings were regularly featured in the Tygodnik Ilustrowany.
Several works by Eliza Orzeszkowa feature his illustrations. In 1906, he created an allegory on the advancement of knowledge for the ceiling of the staircase in Warsaw"s "House of Technology".
In addition to his art, he was a co-organizer and director of "Achów" (outrage).
Cabaret pieces that were presented during the annual Shrovetide carnival in Vilnius from 1904 to 1914. He was a lecturer at Vilnius University from 1919 to 1920. Foreign many years, he suffered from tuberculosis and died of that disease while seeking treatment in Warsaw.