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Karol Antoni Maszkowski, later known as Karol Zyndram Maszkowski (26 May 1868, Lwów - 24 March 1938, Warsaw) was a Polish painter, poster designer, and stained glass artist.
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Biography His father Karol Maszkowski, was a mathematician who lectured and served as a Rector at Lwów Polytechnic. His mother, Marica, née Ferrero, was from Italy. In 1886, after his father's death, he moved to Kraków, where he studied medicine at the Jagiellonian University. After a year, he also began to study painting at the School of Fine Arts.
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After graduating, he travelled; to Vienna, Venice and Munich, where he took lessons from Ludwig von Löfftz. He also spent some time studying decorative painting at the Gwoździec Synagogue. When he returned to Kraków, he was an assistant to Jan Matejko at St. Mary's Basilica. In 1892, he submitted a doctoral dissertation, on a subject he had been assigned three years earlier, but chose not to take the exam; having decided to pursue a career in art, rather than medicine. He then moved to Paris, where he polished his skills at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts with Jean-Léon Gérôme, followed by some time at the Académie Julian. In 1898, he returned to Kraków. The following year, he was commissioned by the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences to create drawings of the art work at the Gwoździec Synagogue. In 2014, those drawings would be used to reconstruct part of the synagogue at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. In 1902, he retired to the Huculszczyzna region, to focus on his painting. He came out of seclusion in 1911, to begin teaching drawing classes, in the evening, at the School of Fine Arts. He also became Manager…
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In 1925, he moved to Poznań where, for thirteen years, he was Director of the University of the Arts. In 1933, he was named a Knight in the Order of Polonia Restituta. He resigned in 1938, due to health problems. He died suddenly while visiting his family in Warsaw. He was interred at the Powązki Military Cemetery.
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Further reading Wielkopolski Słownik Biograficzny, Antoni Gąsiorowski and Jerzy Topolski, Eds. PWN Warszawa-Poznań 1983, pp. 459–460 ISBN 83-01-02722-3. Bronisław Wietrzychowski. "Śp. Karol Zyndram-Maszkowski (malarz, witrażysta). Wspomnienia pośmiertne (s. 93)". Kronika Miasta Poznania nr 1/1938 (in Polish). Retrieved 2012-07-03.
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Karol Antoni Maszkowski, later known as Karol Zyndram Maszkowski (26 May 1868, Lwów - 24 March 1938, Warsaw) was a Polish painter, poster designer, and stained glass artist.