Józef Brodowski, RIP, 1888

47.4 x 37.0cm - oil, cardboard pasted on cardboard signed p.d.: Józef Brodowski | 1888.

Józef Brodowski (Warsaw 1828 - Warsaw 1900) - son of painter Antoni, studied under Rafał Hadziewicz at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts from 1844 to 1851. He was also greatly influenced by Jan Feliks Piwarski, a professor of drawing and landscape painting, who promoted painterly studies in the open air. Brodowski, along with a group of friends - young artists concerned with the idea of creating a "national art" - made "walking trips" around the country, painting and drawing from nature. For a while, he also worked under January Suchodolski. In 1853 he received a scholarship and, together with Wojciech Gerson, went to St. Petersburg for further studies at the Academy of Fine Arts there. Here his teacher was the battle painter Bogdan Willewalde. He graduated from the academy in 1856, and a year later went on a stupendium to Paris, where he attended the studio of the famous Horace Vernet. He traveled to Italy, and in 1859 returned permanently to Warsaw. The subjects of his paintings formed early on.