Jakub Michał Kasprowicz

Jakub Michał Kasprowicz was born in 1905 in the village of Zubrza near Lviv, died in 1975 in Komorów near Warsaw. He came from a landed gentry family and despite their opposition, he decided to become a painter. At the age of 17, he left home and went to Kraków, the main Polish cultural center at the time, where he studied as a freelance student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Without material support from his family, he started working in a factory of chandeliers and wall lamps, where his technical skills were discovered. The owner of the factory offered him an education at polytechnic studies abroad. He did not accept this offer because painting was his only, most important goal. In the 1930s he moved to Warsaw, where he had a painting studio, he also opened an art salon and a painting binding and restoration plant. He spent the summer months at the Baltic Sea, creating seascapes. After the Warsaw Uprising, he was sent to a labor camp in Germany. After the war, he settled in Wałbrzych. Using his artistic and technical skills, he opened a factory producing wooden decorations and toys for children, which was soon nationalized. He returned to Warsaw in the early 1950s, working on the mechanization of frame production in a friend's company.

In his work, he was inspired by the paintings of the Munich people. He painted seascapes, horses, carriages, genre scenes, still lifes, oriental motifs and portraits. He signed his paintings: "J. M. Kasprowicz ", sometimes a list of syllables of one of the names and surnames, e.g." J. Kamich ".

His works are in collections in Austria, the Netherlands, the United States and Germany.