Henryk Rodakowski
{{Short description|Polish painter}}
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| name = Henryk Rodakowski
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| caption = Self-portrait, 1853, National Museum in Wrocław
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| birth_date = July 9, 1823
| birth_place = Lwów, Austrian Empire
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1894|12|28|1823|6|9}}
| death_place = Kraków, Vistula Land
| nationality = Polish
| field = Painting
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Henryk Hipolit Rodakowski ({{IPA|pl|ˈxɛnrɨk rɔdaˈkɔfski|lang}}; 1823–1894) was a Polish painter.
Biography
{{Original research|section|date=May 2015}}He came from a well-known family of lawyers. Continuing the family tradition between 1841 and 1845, he studied law in Vienna. Later he studied painting under Joseph Danhauser (1805–1845) and Franz Eybl (1806–1880). In the years 1846 to 1867 he lived in Paris, where he continued his studies with Léon Cogniet. In 1852 he experienced his first major success by painting a portrait of General Henryk Dembiński, which won the first prize. His studio was visited by the famous painter Eugène Delacroix.
In 1861 he married the love of his youth, Kamila Blühdorn, née von Salzgeber, with whom he had two children. His great-grandson was Jacek Woźniakowski (1920–2012), art historian, writer and co-founder of publishing house "Znak".
In 1866 he was a member of the Polish Historical and Literary Society in Paris. A year later, he left Paris and returned to Poland. He lived in Pałahicze near Stanisławów. At the end of his life he settled in Kraków.
In 1893 he became director and president of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts and chairman of the Committee of the National Museum. On December 24, 1894, he was nominated for the director of Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, but died unexpectedly four days later. He was buried in Rakowice Cemetery in Kraków.
He was a recipient of the Legion of Honour.
He was befriended by the painter and activist Leon Kaplinski.
Paintings
Image:RodakowskiHenryk.Marszalek.1859.jpg|Marshal, 1859
Image:Rodakowski Artist's wife.jpg|Portrait of artist's wife, 1865
Image:Rodakowski Leonia Blühdorn.jpg|Leonia Blühdorn, 1871
Image:Rodakowski_Chicken_War.png|Chicken War, 1872
Image:Rodakowski Landscape from Bortniki.jpg|Landscape from Bortniki upon Dniester, 1878
Image:Jan Dzierżysław Tarnowski.PNG|Jan Dzierżysław Tarnowski, 1889
External links
- [http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Rodakowski/Index.htm Works]
- {{in lang|pl}}[http://www.culture.pl/pl/culture/artykuly/os_rodakowski_henryk Biography (Extended)]
- [http://artyzm.com/e_artysta.php?id=423 Short Biography]
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Category:19th-century Polish painters
Category:19th-century Polish male artists
Category:Polish recipients of the Legion of Honour
Category:Painters from the Austrian Empire
Category:Painters from Austria-Hungary
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