Teodor Axentowicz, Sanctification of Water / On the Thunderbolt.

oil, cardboard, size 32 x 25 cm, signed p. d.: "T. Axentowicz", pencil inscription on the reverse "30 VIII mp".

Teodor Axentowicz (born May 13, 1859 in Brasov, died August 26, 1938 in Krakow) - Polish painter, draughtsman and graphic artist, professor and rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. In 1878-1882 Axentowicz studied in Munich (in mid-October 1878 he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts - Antikenklasse) 1882-1895 he studied in Paris (studio of Carolus-Duran. In 1895 he came to Krakow, where he took a position as a professor at the School of Fine Arts, which he held until 1934. In 1897 he founded a school of painting for women at 14 Gołębia Street, where Stanislawski and Wyczółkowski also taught. He was a co-founder of the Society of Polish Artists "Art." He was also one of the co-founders of the Society of Friends of the National Museum in Krakow, established in 1903 on the initiative of Axentowicz, Feliks Jasieński, Feliks Kopera and Leon Wyczółkowski. In 1910 he became the rector of the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts. Since 1928 he was an honorary member of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He exhibited his works in Berlin (1896, 1913), St. Louis (1904), Munich (1905, 1935), London (1906), Vienna (1908), Rome (1911), Venice (1914, 1926), Paris (1921), Chicago (1927), Prague (1927), among others. Before 1923 he was honorary president of the Union of Polish Artists in Cracow.