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 (31 total)
- Sketches of fawns 1897
- In a Country House 1883
- Country Cottage
- Female Nude. Two Sketches 1895
- Bumpkins and pumpkins in the field 1892
- Flowers 1895
- Landscape sketch
- Studies of pigs
- Bust of a Woman (Gypsy) 1891
- Young Man Sitting on the Ground 1883
- Country Children. Drawing for the Painting ‘The Idyll’ 1882
- Wooden house 1897
- Rural Buildings (Dugouts)@Drawings
- Young Spanish Woman
- Wild pigs in the forest 1897
- Studies of Hands
- Waterside Landscape with a Man in a Boat
- Woman with a Dog 1885
- Bust of a Woman (Gypsy) 1891
- Kamianets-Podilskyi 1894