Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz (1852- 1916), On the Road

Oil on canvas, 46.5 x 58cm, with frame 70 x 58 cm, signed P.d. Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz

Between 1868 and 1873 Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow (under Władysław Łuszczkiewicz), and later at the Vienna and Munich Academies of Fine Arts (under O. Seitz and A. Wagner) and in the studio of Józef Brandt. From his numerous travels he brought a fondness for oriental themes. He worked as a court painter, making portraits on commission. He is the author of a great many paintings, which include Portrait of Władysław Eljasz, Portrait of Helena Modrzejewska (1880), Konstanty Branicki on a hunt, Horses in the pasture (1874), Portrait of Andrzej Potocki on horseback. He also painted Tatra themes, including the painting Excursion in the Tatra Mountains, which is probably identical to the painting Chałubiński's Camp. In 1914 he joined Jozef Pilsudski's Polish Legions. He was buried in the Rakowicki Cemetery in Cracow.