Konrad Krzyżanowski

Konrad Krzyżanowski (15 February 1872 – 25 May 1922) was a Polish illustrator and painter, primarily of portraits, who was considered to be an early exponent of Expressionism.

Biography He was born in Kremenchuk. He grew up in Kyiv and took his first art lessons at the Kyiv Drawing School with Mykola Murashko. This was followed by studies at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. He was not there long, however, when his distaste for the school's teaching methods developed into a conflict with the Rector and he was expelled.

In 1897, Krzyżanowski moved to Munich, where he took private lessons from Simon Hollósy.

In 1914, they returned to Warsaw but, following the outbreak of World War I, went to live with Michalina's relatives in Volhynia. From 1917 to 1918, they lived in Kyiv, where Krzyżanowski taught at the "Polish School of Fine Arts".

After the creation of the Polish Second Republic, they returned to Warsaw and Krzyżanowski re-established his private art school. Among his best-known students were Tadeusz Pruszkowski, Ludwik Konarzewski and Krystyna Wróblewska.

Krzyżanowski died in Warsaw on 25 May 1922.

Selected paintings