Karol D. Witkowski

Karol Dominik Witkowski[1] was born to a Polish family in Jazłowiec[2] (Jaslowiec), near Buchach, Czortków (Podole, Poland, now Ukraine).

As a child he showed a precocious talent for drawing and his parents sent him to school in Chortkiv (12 miles from Yazlovets).

In Paris Witkowski studied at the Julian Academy[4] (1887-1888) and continued to work on paintings and portraits.

Among Witkowski's painting done in France were Portrait de Tomas Milatycki and Mother with Children.

During those years, besides portraits of the elite in New York City and Newark areas, he made over 200 paintings of young people (mostly newsboys and shoeshine boys), their daily life, at work and at play, often with their pets.

Karl Witkowski painted the elite in Newark (New Jersey, USA) and his skills as a portraitist to the wealthy were always in demand.