Włodzimierz Błocki
1885 - 1920

In the years 1904 through 1910, Włodzimierz Błocki attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he studied under the supervision of Florian Cynk, Konstanty Laszczka, Józef Pankiewicz and Leon Wyczółkowski. In 1911, he lived in Lvov, from where he left for Italy with Teodor Grott. They visited Florence, Rome, Naples and Sicily, and together in 1911, published a portfolio of etchings of Florence views. In 1914, Błocki stayed in Paris and paid a short visit to Munich.

Błocki painted mostly landscapes and portraits (sometimes stylized according to the manner of Spanish painting) genre pieces (Courtship, A Sleeping Girl with a Kitten, Włodzio Going Hunting), and symbolic compositions probably created under the influence of Edvard Munch and Scandinavian painters of the end of the nineteenth century. Erotic themes also appeared in his work with a series of etchings called Erotics. The influences of Impressionist painting and Jan Stanisławski (although Błocki never was his student) can be observed in Błocki's landscapes. He also created graphic works, etchings, aquatints and lithographs.

-- Anna Król

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