Szymon Buchbinder

Szymon Buchbinder, or Simeon Buchbinder (6 January 1853 – 21 October 1922) was a Polish painter. Most of his works were genre and historical scenes (often with a moral) and portraits done in small formats.

Biography He was born in Radzyń Podlaski and received his first lessons from his half-brother, Józef, an established artist who was his senior by fourteen years. Later, he took lessons with two local painters; a portraitist named Heymann and a theatrical artist named Malinowski.

From 1869 to 1871, he attended the "Warsaw School of Drawing", where he studied with Wojciech Gerson and Rafał Hadziewicz. In 1883, a scholarship enabled him to study in Munich, where he remained for many years.

In 1897, he moved to Berlin and concentrated on doing portraits. He apparently died there around 1908, although he may have lived until as late as 1924. He seldom exhibited; notably with the Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts during his stay there and at an exhibition of German painters at the Grafton Galleries in 1906.