Seweryn Bieszczad

Seweryn Bieszczad (18 November 1852 – 17 June 1923) was a Polish painter.

[1] He was noted for his sense of realism and use of watercolor in painting primarily landscapes.

He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków between the years 1868 - 1876, under the direction of Wladyslaw Łuszczkiewicz, and then Jan Matejko, and participated in the classes conducted by Leon Dembowski and Feliks Szynalewski.

In 1891, on the advice of friends, he moved permanently to Krosno, where he lived until the end of his life (with the exception of years 1920 - 1923, when he was in Pleszew (woiwodship Poznań).

It was in Krosno that he painted a high number of landscapes of the town and surroundings.