Stanisław Kuczborski (1881 Warsaw - 1911 Warsaw), Dance of the Chooch from Stanisław Wyspiański's play The Wedding, 1904

color lithograph/paper
Size: 28.4 x 39.4 cm
the work comes from the Portfolio of Melpomene, published in Pruszyński's lithographic printing house in Kraków in 1904

Condition
Unframed

Biography
He was a painter, illustrator and caricaturist. Familial connection with the Gierymski family (son of Maximilian and Alexander's sister) which made him participate in organizing Alexander's exhibition at the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1902). Piatkowski's drawn knowledge of his artistic education indicates that he studied in Warsaw, which he soon had to discontinue due to the need to support himself. Thanks to the sale of part of Aleksander Gierymski's legacy, Kuczborski was able to continue his studies, this time in Cracow (Academy of Fine Arts, years 1901-7), where his teachers were Józef Unierzyski, Leon Wyczółkowski and Jan Stanisławski. Thanks to a scholarship awarded by the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, he was able to travel to Sweden for a few months in 1905; he may also have visited Italy that year. Having married in 1907, he left for Paris with his family. Having returned from the Seine, he settled in Warsaw. There he died as a result of an accident.
An important place in Kuczborski's ouvre was occupied by graphics. The artist took part in the realization of the famous "Teki Melpomeny" (together with Karol Frycz, Stanisław Rzecki and Witold Wojtkiewicz). He also took an active part in literary and artistic life. He is considered a co-initiator of the Zielony Balonik cabaret, in the work of which he took an active part.