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          Fu l'incontro con Rodin, con le sue ossessioni erotiche, con la sua passionalità d'uomo e d'artista a sconvolgerle l'esistenza fino alle estreme conseguenze.!

          • Witold Pruszkowski, Polish.

          Witold Pruszkowski

          Polish Painter, 1846-1896 Polish painter and draughtsman. He spent his early years in Odessa and Kiev, subsequently living in France, in particular in Paris, where he studied under the Polish portrait painter Tadeusz Gorecki (1825-68), continuing (1868-71) at the Akademie der Kenste in Munich.

          In 1871 he moved to Krakew where he studied until 1875 under Jan Matejko at the School of Fine Arts. During ten years in Krakew he produced many striking portraits.

          This painting by 19th century Polish painter Witold Pruszkowski features a shooting star embodied as a beautiful woman.

        1. Witold Pruszkowski was born in and spent his youth in Odessa and Kiev.
        2. Fu l'incontro con Rodin, con le sue ossessioni erotiche, con la sua passionalità d'uomo e d'artista a sconvolgerle l'esistenza fino alle estreme conseguenze.
        3. Tadeusz Pruszkowski actively participated in Polish inter-war cultural life as an artist, critic and teacher.
        4. The artist, although born in Warsaw, acquired his workshop skills from Italian masters.

          5. In the portrait of Mrs Fedorowicz (1878; Krakew, N. Mus.) he achieved subtle effects of modelling by means of carefully differentiated tones and meticulously distributed light. The Realism of these portraits is subsumed into an advanced proto-Impressionist technique, on occasion using both small patches of distinct colour and broadly applied areas of impasto.

          Alongside such works, Pruszkowski produced paintings based on fantastic legends, fables and folk-tales. In these works one can trace influences going bac