Zdzisław Jasiński

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Zdzisław Piotr Jasiński (18 January 1863 – 18 November 1932) was a Polish painter, draftsman and watercolorist. His early work followed the Academic style, but he later became better known for Impressionism. He was born in Warsaw. His father ran a decorating business and was a leader in the painters’ guild; his youngest brother Józef became a sculptor.

Jasiński studied with Wojciech Gerson at the Warsaw School of Drawing, then at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts under Leopold Loeffler and Florian Cynk. With a scholarship from the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, he studied at the Munich Academy under Otto Seitz and Alexander von Wagner. In 1891 he won a gold medal in Berlin for The Sick Mother, and in 1893 he received a medal at the World's Columbian Exposition.

After 1893 he lived in Warsaw. From 1896 to 1897 he painted murals in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, and he also did murals at the cathedral in Włocławek and at a college in Kalisz. In 1897 he spent time in Rome painting ceiling pictures. Four years later he painted Folk Music on the ceiling of the Warsaw Philharmonic concert hall, a work later destroyed by bombing.

In 1904 he moved to an estate near Przyłęk. He returned to Warsaw in 1910 and built a town house there. He painted a fresco of Saint John the Evangelist in St. Barbara’s Church near Warsaw, which was destroyed in World War II. In 1921 he helped found the Pro Arte group, which opposed abstract trends in modern art. Jasiński died in Warsaw on 18 November 1932.