Jan Kazimierz Olpinski (1878-1936), "Landscape with a River," 1927

oil, cardboard, 25 x 35 cm,
signed p.d.: K. Olpiński

Painter, educated at the academy in Munich, continued his studies in Paris at the Académie des Beaux- Arts and the Académie Colarossi, and from 1905 with Kazimierz Pochwalski at the Vienna academy. During his studies, he was awarded numerous prizes. Upon his return to Poland, he taught at middle schools in Krosno, Krakow and Zywiec. In 1921 he settled in Lviv and took a job at the art department of the State Industrial School. He exhibited a lot, including in Lviv, Krakow, Poznan and Warsaw. He painted genre scenes, legion motifs, landscapes of the Beskid and Hutsul regions, and portrayed folk types.