Franciszek Żmurko

Franciszek Żmurko (18 July 1859, Lviv – 9 October 1910, Warsaw) was a Polish realist painter. Żmurko began drawing lessons as a young boy in his hometown with the painter Franciszek Tepa. As an adolescent he relocated to Kraków to study at the Academy of Fine Arts where he took lessons from Professor Jan Matejko. In 1877 Żmurko moved to Vienna, Austria where he was accepted at the Vienna Academy, but left soon thereafter to study under Alexander von Wagner in Munich. 1882-1883 Zmurko lived in St.Peterburg. Żmurko returned to Kraków in 1880 and then moved to Warsaw in 1882, where he remained until his death in 1910.

Notable works Zygmunt August i Barbara Zuzanna i starcy, 1879 Z rozkazu padyszacha, 1881 Nubijczyk, 1884 Portret kobiety z wachlarzem, 1884 Widzenie Fausta, 1890 Kazimierz Wielki i Esterka Portret kobiety z wachlarzem i papierosem, 1891 Autoportret z paletą, 1895 Portret młodej kobiety, 1896 Studium do obrazu "Laudamus feminam", c. 1900 Półakt kobiecy, c. 1900 Una donna Czarne warkocze, 1907

Selected works