Antoni Kozakiewicz

Antoni Kozakiewicz (13 June 1841 — 3 January 1929) was a Polish genre painter in the Realist style.

Biography He was born in Kraków and began his studies in 1857 at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts under Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, among others, graduating in 1866.

It took him some extra time to complete his courses because, in 1863, he was a participant in the January Uprising, during which he was captured by Russian troops and imprisoned until the insurgency was over. After graduation, he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

In 1871, thanks to an Imperial Scholarship, he was able to continue his education at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. He shared a studio with Franz Streitt and Aleksander Kotsis and often went on painting expeditions with them in the mountains of Bavaria. In Munich, he painted a series of works depicting the lives of Polish peasants, Jews and Gypsies. He also created illustrations for children's stories and Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz, as well as portraits and landscapes. His older brother, (1836–1893), was a well-known sculptor.

Selected paintings