Maria Klass-Kazanowska
Realist painter of genre and landscapes
Maria Klass-Kazanowska came from an impoverished noble family. In 1878 she began studying at the school of painting for women run by Wojciech Gerson. On the professor's advice, in 1881 she left for further studies in St. Petersburg and began studying at the local Academy of Fine Arts. In 1884, she completed the basic course in B. Willewald's class, receiving a silver medal. With her husband, painter Władysław Kazanowski, she spent several years in Volhynia, from where they both returned to St. Petersburg. She painted - realistically - genre scenes, landscapes and architectural views from Volhynia (including Kamieniec Podolski), animalistic scenes and flower compositions.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Wojciech Gerson Master
Artworks by this artist
- Profile of a Young Woman 1895
- Female Nude. Two Sketches 1895
- Studies of pigs
- Wild pigs in the forest 1897
- Shepherdess 1898
- Wooden house 1897
- Flowers – Nasturtiums 1895
- Studies of Hands
- Country Cottage
- Peasant Woman 1888
- Studies of peasant women for the painting “Building a cottage” 1895
- Young Spanish Woman
- Wooden house 1897
- Sketches of fawns 1897
- Studies of a Peasant Woman 1897
- In a Country House 1883
- Studies of does 1897
- Bust of a Woman (Gypsy) 1891
- Country Children. Drawing for the Painting ‘The Idyll’ 1882
- Waterside Landscape with a Man in a Boat