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Portrait of an Older Man

Julian Zachariewicz

Basic information

ID: Г-I-410
Author: Julian Zachariewicz
Name: Portrait of an Older Man
Date of creation: 1857
Country: Austrian Empire
Technique: drawing
Material: paper watercolour
Dimensions: 16.8 x 14.6 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: portraiture
Plot: Portrait
Provenance: the Dzieduszycki collection

Information about author

Author: Julian Zachariewicz
Artist's lifetime: 1837–1898
Country: Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Biography: Julian Oktawian Zachariewicz (17 July 1837, Lviv – 27 December 1898, Lviv) was a prominent Galician architect of Armenian origin, founder of the Lviv School of Architecture, and in 1881–1882 professor and rector of the Lviv Polytechnic National University, then the Imperial Royal Higher Technical School in Lviv. He graduated from the Lviv Technical Academy (1852–1857) and received professional training in Vienna (1858). His designs were used in the construction of the main building of the Lviv Polytechnic, the Galician Savings Bank (now the Museum of Ethnography and Arts and Crafts), the artist's studio and residence of Jan Styka (now Oleksa Novakivskyi Art and Memorial Museum), the Franciscan Church and Monastery, a number of villas of cultural and artistic personalities in the Kastelivka district of Lviv, the Choral Synagogue in Chernivtsi, the railway station in Iasi (Romania), and others. Julian Zachariewicz was the father of the architect Alfred Zachariewicz.

Object description

The work is a full-length portrait of an old, grey-haired man with shoulder-length hair, a beard, and a moustache wearing dark clothes. The man is shown half-turned to the left; his gaze is thoughtful. A dark green background hangs over the image below the centre of the sheet. The light falls on the man's face, creating a shadow behind him.

Inscriptions

The author's signature and date are on the lower edge of the image: "JOZ 1857".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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