Popiel, Tadeusz (1863-1913)

Szczucin near Tarnów 1863 – Kraków 1913
From 1876, Tadeusz Popiel studied at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków, first with Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, Florian Cynk, and Leopold Löffler, and then with Jan Matejko who regarded him as one of his most talented pupils. From 1885, he continued his education in Vienna with Hans Makart and the following years he moved to Munich where he enrolled and spent two years at the famous Munich Academy and had his own atelier. He exhibited nationally and internationally (Kraków, Lviv, Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Chicago, Philadelphia), worked intensely and travelled extensively (inter alia in Italy, Romania, and Russia). He produced a large and diverse oeuvre of easel paintings and murals, including frescoes in the Polish Chapel of St Stanislao in St Anthony’s Basilica in Padua. In 1893-1894, he joined the team of painters working on the Panorama of the Battle of Racławice: he assisted Ludwig Boller in painting the landscape background. He also collaborated with Jan Styka on two panoramas: Golgotha and the Transylvanian Panorama. After 1897, he focused on painting and restoring murals.
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