Tymon Niesiołowski

He was born in 1882 and died in 1965. In 1900-05 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków with J. Mehoffer, S. Wyspiański and T. Axentowicz. In 1907-08, 1912 and 1928 he traveled to Munich, Vienna, Italy and Paris. From 1905, he lived in Zakopane, where he designed patterns for the "Kilim" studio. His early work shows the influence of Art Nouveau and painting by Paul Gauguin, later also by Paul Cezanne and August Renoir, and by Amadeo Modigliani. He used pure, intense colors, outlined figures and objects with a distinctive contour. From 1928 he was a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, and in the years 1945-60 at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. He belonged to the Podhale Art Society, the Rytm group and the Toruń Group. He mostly painted interior nudes, women bathing, figures from circus and commedia dell'arte, flowers, landscapes and city views. He also created custom-made portraits, drew postcards, dealt with graphics, sculpture, wrote plays, stories and novels.