Antoni Stefanowicz

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Antoni Stefanowicz (1858, Tovtry - 17 December 1929, Lwów) was a Polish painter and art teacher of Armenian ancestry; specializing in portraits.

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Biography His parents, Kajetan and Emilia, were major landowners. From 1876 to 1879, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, with Carl Wurzinger, Christian Griepenkerl, and August Eisenmenger. After graduating, he worked as a teacher of drawing in Drohobycz. His first showing came in 1883, at an exhibition of the Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts, and was awarded the title of Professor in 1887. He left Drohobycz in 1893, to take a similar teaching position in Lwów. That same year he became a member, then deputy director of the Examination Commission for Teachers; a position he held until 1905. From 1902, he was a member of the National School Council, and was instrumental in reorganizing the methods of drawing instruction. He also wrote two drawing textbooks for teachers. He was married to Maria née Krzysztofowicz. They had two children: Emilia, an activist who served on the Lwów City Council, and Kajetan, also a painter, who was killed in the Polish-Soviet War. In 1906, he became an inspector for industrial schools throughout Austria, and held that position until 1914. Following the Russian invasion of Galicia, he and his family were forced to flee to Biała. They returned…Citește mai mult