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Portrait of an Older Man

Julian Zachariewicz

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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 (height x width, cm)
16.8 x 14.6
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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