Ludwik de Laveaux (painter)

self portrait, 1892

Stanisław Ludwik de Laveaux was a Polish painter.[1][2]

Born November 21, 1868 in Jaronowicach, he Came from a French Protestant family who emigrated to Poland in the 18th century.

He studied at the Kraków School of fine arts from 1884 to 1890, under Józef Mehoffer and for two years he studied painting at the Academy of fine arts in Munich under Otto Seitz. He then went to Paris on a permanent basis, but he travelled to Brittany, London and Oxford. Often living in poverty, contributed to the development of tuberculosis, of which he died at the age of 25 years. Known for his many romances, the most famous of which was his affair with a count's daughter Iwona Prośnieńską from the town of Olkusz. He also had a fiancee, Marysia Stanislaw Wyspianski.

He died April 5, 1894, in Paris and was buried at the Cimetière parisien de Pantin (plot 2, range 11, nr. 2).[3]

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References

  1. ↑ A. Melbechowska-Luty, Widmo: życie i twórczość Ludwika De Laveaux 1868-1894, Wrocław 1988.
  2. ↑ Jens Christian Jensen (Hrsg.), Polnische Malerei von 1830 bis 1914, Katalog zur Ausstellung vom 24. Juni bis zum 20. August 1978 in der Kunsthalle zu Kiel, DuMont, Köln 1978, p.221 f.
  3. ↑ Ludwik de Laveaux.