(1855 - 1940)
Kazimierz Pochwalski was born in Poland in 1855. He first studied with his father, who was also an artist, and then attended the School of Fine Arts in Cracow, before moving to the Academy in Munich. He travelled on study tours to Italy, Greece, Turkey and Egypt, and also worked in Paris and Rome. In 1893 he was appointed Professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna, and won medals for his work exhibited in Munich, Vienna, Berlin and Paris. He enjoyed considerable success as a fashionable society portrait painter, and examples of his work can be seen in Lemberg, Cracow, Poznan (Posen) and Warsaw.
