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Feliks Michał Wygrzywalski (20 November 1875, Przemyśl – 5 September 1944, Rzeszów) was a Polish painter remembered primarily for his Orientalist scenes and portraits. He also created a significant number of nudes. His son, Feliks Kazimierz Wygrzywalski, was also a painter.
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Feliks Michał Wygrzywalski (20 November 1875, Przemyśl – 5 September 1944, Rzeszów) was a Polish painter remembered primarily for his Orientalist scenes and portraits. He also created a significant number of nudes. His son, Feliks Kazimierz Wygrzywalski, was also a painter.
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Biography Thanks to a scholarship from the Malinowski Foundation, Wygrzywalski was able to study at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich from 1893 to 1898. This was followed by some time at the Académie Julian in Paris and a study trip to Italy. In 1900, he settled in Rome and married a local woman named Rosa Imassa. His studies there consisted largely of copying the Old Masters, but he also created landscapes and nudes. Later, he provided illustrations for the Polish travel magazine, Wędrowiec (The Wanderer), as well as magazines in Germany and Russia. In 1906, he visited Egypt, creating numerous paintings and sketches for later use. When he came back to Poland in 1908, he lived in Lviv ("Lwów," in Polish; now in Ukraine), where he had been commissioned to paint murals at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He also did some stage designs. During World War I, he moved to Rostov-on-Don and became a drawing professor. He returned to Lviv when the war was over. Wygrzywalski was a frequent participant in exhibitions, but his first personal showing came only in 1932, at the local "Society of Friends of the Fine Arts". During this period, his major work…