Teodor AXENTOWICZ 1859 — 1938
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Teodor Axentowicz was born 1859 in Brassó, Hungary, to a Polish family of distant Armenian ancestry. Axentowicz was a Polish painter. In 1879 - 1882 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Later he moved to Paris, where he continued his education until 1895. During that time he started a long-time cooperation with various journals and started his career as a copyist, duplicating the works of Tizian and Botticelli. He also made numerous travels to London and Rome, where he prepared a set of portraits, one of the first in his career. In 1910 he became the rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. As an artist, Axentowicz was famous for his portraits and subtle scenes of Hutsul life, set in the Carpathians. He died in Kraków in 1938.