Jan Kazimierz OLPINSKI [1875-1936], Bridge

Jan Kazimierz OLPINSKI [1875-1936].

Bridge

technique: oil on canvas

dimensions: 28.4x50.3cm/ 37x59.5cm

signed l.d. "OLPIŃSKI/924"

Jan Kazimierz OLPINSKI [1875-1936] was born in Lviv. In 1893-97 he took up studies with Karl Raupp and Karl Marr at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. From Munich he went to Paris, where from 1897-1900 he studied at the Academie des Beaux-Arts with Rene Xavier Prinet, Raphael Collin and James Whistler. He also attended the Academie Colarossi. His stay in Paris was full of honors, medals (including a gold medal for Autumn Landscape), and participation in Salons (including the Salon on the Champ de Mars). In 1899-1901, he made artistic trips to Italy, and also visited Courland. In 1900 he moved to Vienna, where he continued his studies with Kazimierz Pochwalski. During his studies, he was awarded the gold medal of the Imperial Prize of Honor, while he received the Second Degree Prize for his triptych Lonely. Olpinski, after returning to Poland in 1905, took part in numerous exhibitions, including the First and Second Exhibitions of the Association of Visual Artists (1911-1921, Lviv), at the TPSP in Krakow, Warsaw and Poznan. Individual exhibitions took place in Zywiec in 1908 and Lviv in 1921.

Olpiński most often used the oil technique. Among his favorite depictions were landscapes from the Beskids, Podolia and Hutsul regions (View of the Zywiec Castle, Waterfall in Bystra), genre scenes and human types (Wading Girl, The Feast of Jordan in Rus), as well as portraits.

His works can be found in numerous museums, including those in Zywiec (e.g. Death of a Legionnaire near Limanowa), Jaroslaw (Portrait of Adolf Dietznis), Krakow (Oath of Legionnaires in the Zywiec Market), and the Lviv Picture Gallery (e.g. Redoubt, Country Cottage).