Włodzimierz Błocki
Polish, 1885-1920
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Włodzimierz Błocki was a Polish painter and graphic artist active in Lviv.
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow under the tutelage of Leon Wyczółkowski, Konstanty Laszczka and Józef Pankiewicz from 1904 to 1910. In 1911, he went to Italy with his friend Teodor Grott. In 1914 he stayed in Paris and Munich, at that time he came under the influence of the French Impressionists.
Włodzimierz Błocki lived and worked in Lviv, and gained considerable popularity as a portraitist and landscape painter. He also painted genre and symbolic scenes as well as nudes. He used the technique of oil, watercolors and pastels. He also practiced graphics, created etchings, aquatints and lithographs.
The artist suffered from tuberculosis, spent the last year of his life in Zakopane, and died prematurely at the age of 35. He was buried in Zakopane.
