Jan BUKOWSKI (1873-1938), Upanishads

color lithograph, paper; 21 x 15 cm (clear passe-partout), wooden frame 32 x 26 cm;
signed on panel "J.B." medr. d.
Jan Bukowski (1873 Barszczowice woj. Lwowskie - 1943 Nowy Targ) painter, graphic artist. He attended high school in Cracow and Nowy Sącz. Between 1893 and 1900 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. In 1900, he received a scholarship and went to Munich, where he studied at the Neumann and Wolf School of Graphic Arts and the Art Industry. In 1901, together with Jan Szczepkowski and Włodzimierz Tetmajer, he founded the School of Fine Arts and Art Industry for Women in Cracow. He traveled several times to Germany, Italy and Paris. He was a member of the Society of Polish Artists Art, co-organizer of the Society of Polish Applied Art, artistic manager at the University Printing House in Cracow, artistic manager of the Zeleński stained glass factory, associate of the Commission for the Study of Art Monuments in Poland, and professor at the School of Art Industry in Cracow. His artistic activities focused on mural painting and book graphics. In his polychromes, he combined figural elements with a motif of stylized floral decoration. He painted the chapel of St. John Nepomucen in the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Cracow (together with W. Tetmajer), the chapel at the Reformati monastery in Kety, the church in Boleslawiec (near Byczyna), the church in Skrzyszów near Tarnów, the parish church in Bochnia, St. Joseph's Church in Cracow and others. He also worked in applied graphics, batik, in addition to designing bookbindings, kilims, furniture, small everyday objects and interiors. He also designed the polychrome in the Franciscan-Reformed Church in Wieliczka.