Dimensions: 37 x 56 cm
signed and dated p.d.: 'Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz | 1898'.
inscribed difficult to read on the reverse
Biography
Between 1868/69 and 72/73 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under W. Łuszczkiewicz. He studied abroad thanks to a scholarship together with W. Kossak at the academy in Vienna, then also studied in Munich with O. Seitz and A. Wagner and in the private studio of Jozef Brandt. Around. 1877, he went to Paris, from where he embarked on a tour of the Middle East. Circa. 1882 he went to Vienna, where he was given a studio by the late Emperor's court painter Hans Makart; he gained considerable fame and enjoyed the favor of the court and aristocracy. After 1893 he traveled extensively painting portraits on commissions - he was in London, Sofia, Constantinople, Bucharest, St. Petersburg. He exhibited at the TPSP in Cracow and the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw, and participated in exhibitions in Vienna, Dresden, Munich and Prague. He painted genre and battle scenes as well as representative portraits.
