Izydor Jabłoński

Izydor Jabłoński (born February 7, 1835, in Kraków, died November 13, 1905, therein) was a Polish painter, professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, friend and biographer of Jan Matejko.

[1][2] In the years of 1848 to 1856, he studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he was taught by Wojciech Stattler, Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, and sculpture by Henryk Kossowski.

Between the years of 1877 to 1899, he was a professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.

[3] During his time as professor, he taught many artists which lived in Kraków at the time, inter alia: Józef Mehoffer, Edward Okuń, Wojciech Weiss, Ludwik Stasiak, Stanisław Wyspiański, and Zefiryn Ćwikliński.

In 1879, he was the director of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts (Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych) in Kraków.