Pantaleon Szyndler

Pantaleon Józef Szyndler or Szendler (26 July 1846, Lipie – 31 January 1905, Warsaw) was a Polish painter in the Academic style.

Some of his canvases were inspired by Polish Romantic poetry and he was a close friend of Cyprian Norwid.

From 1870 to 1873, he was enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, under the direction of Alexander Strähuber (1814-1882), Hermann Anschütz (1802-1880) and Otto Seitz (1846-1912), then went to the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, where he worked with Luigi Cochetti (1802-1884); finishing in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts with Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889).

He then moved to Częstochowa, where he did work at Jasna Góra Monastery and operated his own art school.

[1] His painting of Eve won honorable mention at the Exposition Universelle (1889), but created a controversy in Poland.