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Alfons Karpiński

ID: OS-011212-P/194608

Alfons Karpiński

First name:

Alfons

Last Name:

Karpiński

Date of birth:

20-02-1875

Place of birth:

Rozwadów

Date of death:

06-06-1961

Place od death:

Kraków

Age:

86

Profession:

painter

Biography:

Alfons Karpiński (1875-1961), born in Rozwadów, painter. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków under Leon Wyczółkowski. He continued his studies in Munich and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Académie Colarossi in Paris. He belonged to the Society of Polish Artists "Sztuka". During the First World War, he served in the War Graves Unit in Kraków, creating paintings and watercolours documenting cemeteries. He specialised in portraits of women and also painted still lifes and landscapes. In 2018, the Alfons Karpinski Painting Gallery was opened at the Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola.

Publication:

31.05.2023

Last updated:

01.11.2025
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