Władysław Podkowiński - Wilczyce 1893

Władysław Podkowiński (1866–1895) was born in Warsaw, his early art education was in his native town. At the age of 21, he proceeded to the St Petersburg Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. The following year, he returned to Warsaw, where he became an illustrator for a local publication. It was after a trip to Paris in 1889 that his interest in Impressionism began. Suffering from tuberculosis, his short life ended scarcely six years later.