Salvete Omnes,
finally a little entry about Aleksander Kotsis (1836-77), citizen of then town of Podgorze (complicated story of Krakow and towns and villages in the vicinity during 1795-1914- nowadays a district of Krakow) who was of mixed Polish and Slovak heritage, his father Jan perhaps of the Slovak ancestry from Lewocza/Levoca in Spis while his mother came from village of Ludwinow , now part of Krakow, and was of a peasant origin.
Kotsis was one the XIX century growing community of Polish masters of brush and paint, pen and ink, and charcoal. This artist grew up, lived and worked mostly in Little Poland, while doing academic and artistic studies at Krakow Academy of Fine Arts and at Vienna's k.k. vereinigten Akademie der bildenden Künste (Imperial and Royal Unified Academy of Fine Arts).
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| Luszczykiewicz' gorals or highlanders |
While in Krakow he studied under two influential professors Władysław Łuszczkiewicz & Wojciech Stattler,
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| friends of Artur Grottger, including Kotsis and Matejko Ad 1865, Krakow |
Among his fellow students there were many great artists-in-training, like Jan Matejko and Artur Grottger to name a few.
He was forced to stop working in 1875 and died prematurely in 1877.
Kotsis painted lots of country and farm characters, including the gorals aka Highlanders and other Carpathians Mountains mountaineers.
Became a painter of Polish peasants and their lives in the second half of the XIX century. And the peasant farmer and highlander used faithful koniks and Hucul horses in their work, draft and in other transposition needs and pleasures, including riding.
in the picture below there is a Gypsy family with a captive bear.
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| here we have a typical sturdy konik, the workhorse of the Polish peasantry of those past centuries |
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| noble horses in this canvass - horse market |
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| Kotsis traveled across Europe, including the Alps,hence this alpine looking canvas |
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| Cracovian farmer and a Jewish trader |
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