Karol Biske
Polish, 1863 - 1928
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Karol Biske was a Polish Painter, graphic artist, teacher.
As a student at the Third Gymnasium in Warsaw, he studied drawing under Adrian Głębocki. He began his training in the Warsaw Drawing Class under Wojciech Gerson and Aleksander Kamiński, continuing at the landscape department of the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg (1883–85), as well as in Munich and Paris.
After returning to Poland in 1887, he settled in Warsaw, where he worked as a painter and graphic artist, collaborating with, among others, Tygodnik Ilustrowany, and teaching drawing in secondary schools, including the Gargulski School and the Merchants' Assembly Trade School. He published texts on educational topics.
He sat on the board of the Artistic Society operating in Warsaw. In 1897, he opened his own painting school there. He spent the years of World War I in Minsk, where he took care of Polish cultural heritage, for which he was awarded a medal. In the last years of his life, he often visited Zakopane, painting landscapes of the Tatra Mountains.
Biske was highly regarded as a landscape painter, but he also painted nudes and studies of flowers and plants. He exhibited at the TPSP in Poznań, as well as at the Krywult Salon, the Abe Gutnajer Art Salon, and the Garliński Salon in Warsaw.
