Stefan Witold Matejko

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Stefan Witold Matejko (5 May 1871 – 5 February 1935) was a Polish painter and stained-glass designer.

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Biography Stefan Witold Matejko was born on 5 May 1871, in Kolomyia. In 1892, he graduated from the Kraków Academy of Arts (his specialized teachers were L. Lefler, W. Łuszczkiewicz, and J. Matejko), and in 1893, from the Munich Academy of Arts. From 1893, he was active in Kraków, where from 1905–1914, he was the chief artist for Stanisław Gabriel Żeleński stained-glass and mosaic firm. He died on 5 February 1935, in Kraków. He is buried in Rakowicki Cemetery.

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Works From 1909, he began presenting his works at exhibitions. Matejko created paintings with human figures, painted portraits, and drew landscapes. He also engaged in monumental painting. Between 1889 and 1891, together with students of Jan Matejko and under his guidance, he worked on decorating the interior of the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kraków with frescoes. Also, in the 1890s, he painted frescoes in Kraków's churches of St. Nicholas and Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. In 1917–1918, together with Juliusz Makarewicz, he restored the Old Ruthenian frescoes of the Holy Trinity Chapel, located in Lublin Castle. From 1905 to 1914, Matejko designed stained glass and mosaics for numerous churches in Galicia: the parish Roman Catholic church in Ternopil (6 stained-glass windows inspired by Jan Matejko's works, as well as a composition with the city's coat of arms, 1907–1908; all are not preserved), stained-glass windows for churches in the towns of Turka (now Lviv Oblast, 1907), Zboriv (now Ternopil Oblast), Nienadówka (1913, now Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland), mosaics for the chapel of the Jesuit school in Khyriv (now Lviv Oblast, 1907–08). stained-glass windows in the southern part of the presbytery of the church in Drohobych…Citește mai mult