Kazimierz Stabrowski
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| Born |
Kazimierz Stabrowski 10 November 1869 Nowogródek, Poland |
| Died | 10 June 1929 Garwolin, Poland |
| Nationality |
 Polish |
| Education | Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Symbolism |
| Spouse(s) | Julia Janiszewska (1902) |
Kazimierz Stabrowski (born November 21, 1869 in Nowogródek, died June 10, 1929 in Garwolin) was a Polish painter, and director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
Kazimierz Stabrowski came from a Polish landed gentry (ziemiaństwo) family. In the years 1880 to 1887, he completed his education in Białystok, after which he studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, where he was taught by Pavel Chistyakov, later (from 1895) in Ilya Repin's workshop. At the academy he gained contacts with numerous Polish painters, inter alia with Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Kazimierz Wasilkowski, Henryk Weyssenhoff, and Stanisław Bohusz-Siestrzeńcewicz, as well as with Russians.
In 1893, he went on artist travels to the East, Beirut, and Palestine, in which he visited Odessa, Istanbul, Greece, and Egypt. Throughout his journey, he gathered a portfolio of work, he did his diploma painting Muhammad in the desert (The escape from Mecca) (Mahomet na pustyni (Ucieczka z Mekki)) during his travels. In the years of 1897 to 1898, he did his further studies at the Académie Julian in France; it is there where he met numerous academics inter alia Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, and Jean-Paul Laurens, and has been introduced into the artistic movements of Impressionism and Fauvism. After coming back to St. Petersburg, he participated in the regional sphere of artists, where he made numerous artworks, which he exhibited inter alia Paris, (at the World's fair in 1900), Munich (1901), and Venice (1903).
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