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MEHOFFER
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Jozef MEHOFFER bm
Bom at Ropczyce near Lvov in 1869 — Died at Wadowice in 1946
He obtained his education simultaneously at the Law Faculty of the Jagiellonian University and
over the years 1887 -1894 in the Cracow School of Fine Arts under Izydor Jabloriski, Wladyslaw
Luszczkiewicz, Jozef Unierzyski and Jan Matejko. In 1889 he worked under Matejko’s leadership
on the polychromies in Our Lady’s Church in Cracow; in the same year he left Cracow for
a year-long stay in Vienna. In the period 1891 -1896 he completed his artistic education in Paris,
initially at the Academie Julian and in the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, then at the Academie
Colarossi under Joseph Blanc and Jacques Courtois, and since 1892 in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts
under Leon Bonnat In the years 1894-1896 he stayed alternately in Poland, in Paris and in
Fribourg in Switzerland, where in 1895 he won the design competition for the stained-glass
windows in the Gothic cathedral of St. Nicholas. In 1896 he returned to Cracow for good. In 1901
he was appointed to the adjoined professorship at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts; in 1905 he
became a full professor and acted twice as rector of the Academy (in the years 1914/1915 and
1932 /1933). He belonged to numerous artistic societies: the Viennese section of Hagenbund, the
Society of Polish Artists “Art” (whose co- founder he was in 1897), the Royal Society of Friends of
the Fine Arts in Brussels and the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
He was interested above all in monumental painting (stained-glass windows, polychromy); as far
as easel painting was concerned he most often produced portaits and landscapes; in addition he
practised graphics.
799.
Self-portrait, 1897
Oil on canvas, 39 x 32
Signed top left: J. Mehoffer
Inv. no MNK II-b-1930 (312 361)
Purchased from Wiktoria Faleriska in 1968
800.
Self-portrait, 1897
Oil on board, 34.7 x 26.7
Signed and dated bottom right: Jozef
MEHOFFER 11897.
Inv. no MNK II-b-867 (152 101)
Gift of Feliks Jasieriski, 1920
285
Jozef MEHOFFER bm
Bom at Ropczyce near Lvov in 1869 — Died at Wadowice in 1946
He obtained his education simultaneously at the Law Faculty of the Jagiellonian University and
over the years 1887 -1894 in the Cracow School of Fine Arts under Izydor Jabloriski, Wladyslaw
Luszczkiewicz, Jozef Unierzyski and Jan Matejko. In 1889 he worked under Matejko’s leadership
on the polychromies in Our Lady’s Church in Cracow; in the same year he left Cracow for
a year-long stay in Vienna. In the period 1891 -1896 he completed his artistic education in Paris,
initially at the Academie Julian and in the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, then at the Academie
Colarossi under Joseph Blanc and Jacques Courtois, and since 1892 in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts
under Leon Bonnat In the years 1894-1896 he stayed alternately in Poland, in Paris and in
Fribourg in Switzerland, where in 1895 he won the design competition for the stained-glass
windows in the Gothic cathedral of St. Nicholas. In 1896 he returned to Cracow for good. In 1901
he was appointed to the adjoined professorship at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts; in 1905 he
became a full professor and acted twice as rector of the Academy (in the years 1914/1915 and
1932 /1933). He belonged to numerous artistic societies: the Viennese section of Hagenbund, the
Society of Polish Artists “Art” (whose co- founder he was in 1897), the Royal Society of Friends of
the Fine Arts in Brussels and the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
He was interested above all in monumental painting (stained-glass windows, polychromy); as far
as easel painting was concerned he most often produced portaits and landscapes; in addition he
practised graphics.
799.
Self-portrait, 1897
Oil on canvas, 39 x 32
Signed top left: J. Mehoffer
Inv. no MNK II-b-1930 (312 361)
Purchased from Wiktoria Faleriska in 1968
800.
Self-portrait, 1897
Oil on board, 34.7 x 26.7
Signed and dated bottom right: Jozef
MEHOFFER 11897.
Inv. no MNK II-b-867 (152 101)
Gift of Feliks Jasieriski, 1920