Zygmunt Andrychiewicz

Zygmunt Andrychiewicz (* 1861, † 1943 in Warta ) was a Polish painter.

Life

Andrychiewicz first learned of a Warsaw Drawing School and worked at the same time as a decorator. Thanks to a grant from the Warsaw Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pieknych he studied from 1884 to 1886 at the Art Academy in Krakow under Izydor Jabłoński and Władysław Luszczkiewicz. Another scholarship of TZSP enabled him to continue his studies in Paris. From 1887 to 1892 he studied at the Académie Colarossi under FG Colin and at the Académie Julian under William Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert -Fleury. For a while he was living in Paris with Władysław Slewinski. After his return to Warsaw he was in his studio drawing lessons. Later, he was a teacher at the Tokarzewski - painting school.

His works were exhibited regularly from 1886 in the Zachęta Gallery and in the Gallery Salon Warsaw Krywult. They were also shown by the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Krakow, to the salons of Paris and two world exhibitions in Paris (1889 and 1900). From 1899 to 1918 Andrychiewicz lived again in Paris; in 1906 he studied at the studio of B. Constantin. He returned in 1918 returned to Poland and settled in 1921 in the village Malkow in powiat Sieradzki down. Andrychiewicz mainly painted portraits and genre scenes, landscapes and motifs of Polish towns and cities. His paintings are owned by, inter alia, of museums in Warta and Sieradz.