Stanisław Kuczborski

Kuczborski studied painting in Kraków at the School of Fine Arts under Leon Wyczółkowski and Jan Stanisławski before continuing his art education in Paris.

He was a co-founder and participant of the legendary Zielony Balonik art-and-literary cabaret in Kraków.

His lithographs published in Liberum Veto and Hrabia Wojtek, appeared in Teka Melpomeny collection (1904) about personalities in the local theatre.

One of his better-known paintings inspired by the Young Poland movement is the Funeral (1904), depicting village folk from Bronowice.

[1] Kuczborski married Zofia Munk with whom he had a daughter, Irena Kuczborska (1907–1971), also a fine arts painter.

Stanisław Kuczborski: 1904 caricature of actor-director Józef Kotarbiński [ pl ] as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (from Melpomene 's File )