Konrad Krzyżanowski

Konrad Krzyżanowski (15 February 1872 – 25 May 1922) was a Polish illustrator and painter, primarily of portraits, who was considered to be an early exponent of Expressionism.

He was not there long, however, when his distaste for the school's teaching methods developed into a conflict with the Rector and he was expelled.

From 1904 to 1909, he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he often took his students to paint en plein aire in Lithuania and Finland.

From 1912 to 1914 the couple lived in London and Paris, where Michalina studied with Maurice Denis at the Académie Ranson.

[2] After the creation of the Polish Second Republic, they returned to Warsaw and Krzyżanowski re-established his private art school.