Portrait of Józef Mehoffer by Stanisław Wyspiański, pastel, 60 x 57 cm, Raczyński Foundation at the National Museum in Poznań, photo pinakoteka.zascianek.pl, 1898, Domaine public
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Józef Mehoffer

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Józef Mehoffer

Fryburg | Switzerland

First name:

Józef

Last Name:

Mehoffer

Parents:

Wilhelm Mehoffer i Aldona z domu Polikowska

Date of birth:

19-03-1869

Place of birth:

Ropczyce

Date of death:

08-07-1946

Place od death:

Wadowice

Age:

Profession:

artist, graphic designer, painter

Honours and awards:

Order Odrodzenia Polski, Polonia Restituta, Wawrzyn Akademicki

Biography:

Józef Mehoffer (actually Józef Edler von Mehoffer) was born on 19 March 1869 in Ropczyce. He was a painter, graphic artist and stained-glass artist, as well as a highly distinguished modernist artist of the Young Poland movement. He attended the School of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he studied under Jan Matejko, and also collaborated with Stanisław Wyspiański. He died on 7 July 1946 in Wadowice of tuberculosis. The Józef Mehoffer House, a branch of the National Museum in Kraków dedicated to his work, is located at 26 Krupnicza Street in Kraków.

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